Future of American Health care. There is not one woman at the table to represent more than half the population of this country. This house bill would be devastating for women. Women would be denied coverage because of situations that are unique to them. Its an effort to kill off planned parenthood. If the bill passed today, thousands of americans would die. The senate is looking forward to getting it, and i think were going to have some really great health care. Good morning. Welcome to saturday. I know that im sure the alarm is not going off. Im surprised youre awake already, but were glad that you are. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. New this morning, the leading french president ial candidate says hes been hacked on the eve of their election. Emmanuel macrons Campaign Says it was meant to, quote, undermine democracy like it happened in the u. S. The French Electoral Commission is asking the media not to publish details. Also this morning, former trump adviser carter page telling the Senate Intel Committee to ask the Obama Administration for his russia communications. Hes got some very salty language. More on that in a moment, but this after promising to cooperate with officials. And a new report from the Washington Post says that senior members of the Trump Transition Team warned Michael Flynn about his contact with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Melissa bell live from paris here. So, melissa, help us understand the reaction this hour to those allegations from the electoral commission. Reporter well, what were hearing are two Different Things really. First of all from the Campaign Team around Emmanuel Macron, this announcement last night that they had been the victims of this massive hacking operation with these many thousands of documents then published online. Now, the trouble is that the timing of this release of this leak comes it came last night just a few hours before the beginning of this period of a sort of media blackout that you have just before polling begins on sunday morning. So the other piece of information we have is from the French Electoral Commission warning french and International Media that the contents of those leaked documents, the emails, the documents themselves, cannot be reported because that interferes with electoral law. I mean essentially this period is designed to give the french time to consider their vote without sort of having the constant fury over media speculation and campaigning on the part of the various parties. Now, what Emmanuel Macrons team has said is that these leaks involve emails, campaign documents, some real, some they say fake, and that that is designed deliberately to cause confusion in this process just a few hours before the polls open in order, they say, to destabilize frances democratic process. Melissa, does the fact that there was a hack at all, whether any information can be released or not does the fact that there was a hack influence voters in any way, do you think, at this point of the game . Reporter i think thats the really big question. For the time being, Emmanuel Macron enjoys has enjoyed in the last few weeks a substantial lead over his rival. What difference will that make in the minds of voters . I think it certainly throws up a number of questions and a lot of confusion at the very last minute in what has been a very bitter campaign. Now, this is not the first time that Emmanuel Macron has alleged he is the victim of fake news or cyber attacks. This is something weve been hearing a lot over the course of the last few weeks. Theyve alleged theyve been the victim of a number of these sorts of attacks, most recently just a couple of weeks ago. They say that it is a deliberate attempt to help their opponent, part rights marine le pen. For the time being, though, all we have is the news from their camp that this has happened. The warning about the reporting of the contents, and their a lot of confusion no doubt in the minds of voters about how damaging the leaked documents really are for his campaign. Because you would assume that at some point they would come out. Melissa bell, thank you so much. We appreciate the update live for us there from france. Jim sciutto told Anderson Cooper that the hack in france seems very familiar to what happened to the clinton campaign. Reporter the timing of this seems very familiar. Its not certain who is behind this hack yet. It takes some time typically to determine that with certainty. But i will tell you this, anderson. U. S. Intelligence officials have been saying to me that russia, emboldened by its success, some might say, in terms of hacking into the u. S. Election and the democratic party, et cetera, was emboldened by that. It was expected, in fact, to target french and german elections that are happening this year. And this kind of thing, stealing emails, releasing them right before people go to the polls, fits that pattern. Again, not certain that it is russia, but this is the kind of thing that has been warned about from not just european intelligence but u. S. Intelligence as well. And the timing really extremely interesting and somewhat alarming. Lets bring in now to the conversation kyle phelps, a reporter for the Washington Examiner and david farn hold, cnn contributor and reporter for the Washington Post. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. Weve got in the last couple of minutes a statement here from a spokesman for the kremlin. He says these, like other similar accusations that russia was involved in some way are based on nothing and are pure slander. So that coming in in just the last couple of minutes from the kremlin spokesperson. Lets move on here. We reached out to the kremlin for comment. Its an obvious call that we make after the similarities between what happened in france and what happened in the u. S. But are there other suspects as the president suggested in the u. S. Hacking just as late as the end of april . China, maybe others in this hack. David . Well, as jim said in that clip you played, nobody has settled on the exact culprit. But it seems russia is an obvious suspicious party, an obvious place to look both because theyve been very supportive of marine le pens campaign for months, loaning her money. Le pen visited moscow. Its clear le pen is the russian candidates in these elections. The hacking seemed to follow a very similar pattern. Theres nobody else that has sort of the level of circle evidence against them as russia. Kyle, lets listen to what Hillary Clinton told our Christiane Amanpour just a couple of days ago. I was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comeys letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. As nate silver, who, you know, he doesnt work for me. Hes an independent analyst but one considered to be very reliable, you know, has concluded, you know, if the election had been on october 27th, id be your president. So, kyle, there is one really important difference here, and thats the timing. The podesta hacking and the emails released sporadically over a longer period of time. This comes just at the very end of the campaign. Is there enough time here potentially to sway what happened, and is this the same m. O. Of whomever hacked in the u. S. . Well, it definitely seems like its the same m. O. The key word here, i think, is confusion. Theres not necessarily remember, the podesta emails, there wasnt really a whole lot of damning evidence toward Hillary Clinton and her campaign, but it was the appearance of, you know, being not transparent and having something to hide that was the issue. And i think thats going to be the same thing here. You know, if theres confirmation of a hack and a leak, but theres not a lot of information thats going to be put out there thanks to this media blackout. So i think theres going to be an issue in the minds of french voters of what does Emmanuel Macron have to hide given that all those emails had to be leaked in order to be released. As for, you know, whether the timing matters, i think it does given the fact that it happened right before this media blackout takes place. So there is a little bit of information out there, and then theres no actual followup on what the contents of these emails are. So it definitely seems like theres a coordinated plan here by somebody, you know, probably the russians but were not entirely sure. But theres definitely a coordinated plan in order to make macron look bad right before this vote. Lets turn to carter page, who was an adviser to the Trump Campaign in transition, kind of on the periphery there writing this threepage letter that cnn has obtained. I want to put just an excerpt of the letter to the Intel Committee right up here on the screen. He writes, i suspect the physical reaction of the Clinton Obama regime perpetrators will be more along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are eventually exposed regarding the steps taken by the u. S. Government to influence the 2016 election. David, to you. Your read on that statement and just a couple of days ago, it seemed as if he would cooperate with the congressional investigation. Does that seem to be the case now . It does not seem to be the case. Carter page has said that in public, but he has seemed now not to be cooperating with the Senate Investigations and saying they should go get information about him from what the Obama White House had done. Carter page is, as you said, seems to have been a really peripheral character in the Trump Campaign, in the trump transition from everything we can tell. Yet he is the most suspicious person i think ive ever seen on television since the election, sort of trying and failing to make sense of his own interactions with the russians. I think theres going to be a lot more to be learned about him. I still dont understand his connection to the Trump Campaign and to trump himself. That connection may not be there, but page himself may be in some trouble. So, kyle, you know, one question that has stayed with me over the last couple of months is that why is carter page talking so much . I mean there are questions about and for roger stone, who was a trump adviser, questions about and for paul manafort, who was the campaign chairman. Theyre not as vocal as carter page is. Why is he continuing to speak so much when he knows that theres this Ongoing Investigation . That is really a great question. You know, its really unusual and kind of just bizarre to see someone who is the subject of an fbi investigation, multiple congressional investigations, to be so out front and be willing to put himself on tv and speak to, you know, newspapers and websites. Its you would think that it would be time to lay low and to be quiet. But apparently carter page has decided to take a different tack. Im not entirely sure. I wish i had the answer to that question. Im sure if a subpoena comes and forces him to testify in front of congress, maybe well get that answer. All right. Stay with us. 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Well, the republican Health Care Bill heading now to the senate where lawmakers are ready to tear into that plan. Far from the celebratory gop senators who wanted to make significant changes to the bill, changes that could adversely impact the party in midterms. In fact, fallout from the house provisions are already on display at gop town halls across the country. Congressman Raul Labrador in fact faced his constituents last night in idaho. He was shouted down on the issue. Listen to this. Youre mandating people on medicaid accept dying. You are making no one wants anybody to die. You know, that line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. He said there nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. Thats what prompted it. Senate republicans announced a group of 13 members that will write its own health care proposal. All those members, however, are men, which has caught the ire of many considering that so many of the issues that we talk about with health include womens issues. In the meantime, the new York Attorney general, Eric Schneiderman plans to sue the Trump Administration if the Health Care Bill does become law. He claims that it weakens protections for those with preexisting conditions and specifically imposes an undue burden on womens constitutional rights. Thats a quote. Heres cnns sunlen sur fat. Reporter beyond the politics of the washington beltway, the housepassed bill has some serious implications for the 117 million americans living with preexisting conditions, especially women. Critics charging the bill in its current form would hit women especially hard. For example, women who are pregnant, have had a previous csection, have irregular periods, have breast cancer, and endometriosis among others could all be slapped with a preexisting condition label, opening up the door for insurers to potentially deem them uninsurable, deny them coverage, or charge them higher premiums by pushing them into highrisk pools where the policy may not be as affordable. This house bill would be devastating for women. Women would be in the same situation where theyre denied coverage because of situations that are unique to them, and thats discrimination. Reporter the bill doesnt explicitly define what a preexisting condition is. The u. S. Department of health and Human Services says a preexisting condition is a Health Problem you had before the date that new Health Coverage starts. That puts the power in the hands of Insurance Companies to decide with nearly any illness or medical condition on the table able to be considered preexisting, including potentially Domestic Abuse or rape if a survivor was seeking Mental Health help. Frankly the most concerning part about this is that it sends the message to survivors that, you know, youre going to be punished for this and effectively establishes a premium on experiencing rape or sexual assault. Reporter 45 states have previously passed laws that prohibit insurers from classifying Domestic Abuse and rape as preexisting conditions, but this has raised some alarm on capitol hill. Will you commit to maintaining the protections that ensure that victims of Domestic Violence will not be discriminated against when purchasing Health Insurance . I think its absolutely vital that victims of Domestic Violence and others, anybody, we need a system in place that ensures that individuals are either not priced out of the market. 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An explosive report surrounding former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. According to the Washington Post, senior members with President Trumps Transition Team warned flynn on multiple occasions about his contacts with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. The report claims the officials were so concerned that flynn didnt understand the ambassadors motives, they went to the Obama Administration for help, asking for a classified profile on kislyak. But its not clear if flynn ever read that document. It is the latest in a series of events since the election that has really raised these red flags for the Intelligence Community here. Scathing detail now prompting new questions about flynns contacts, what the white house may have known, when they may have known it. Kyle phelps, your reporter for the Washington Examiner and david fahrenthold, cnn contributor and reporter with the Washington Post both with us now. Gentlemen, thanks again for sticking around. I want to put up a timeline here just so we have an understanding of what theyre talking about, what they lay out here in the Washington Post report regarding back in november apparently the white house staff or the Transition Team having conversations with Michael Flynn, warning him about the discussions he was having, and then all the way into january and february when he finally bowed out, lets say. So when we look at this timeline and we wonder what exactly the white house knew and what was happening with kislyak, we know they were exchanging text messages, cell phone calls. What do you make, david, about the tension that this may have caused within the Transition Team . Well, it sounds like the sort of experienced professional folks that trump had brought in as his Transition Team, the person who was leading these warnings was someone who had worked for the brush administration. They were alarmed by what seemed at best stupid behavior by Michael Flynn. They were warning him. Look, u. S. Intelligence agencies are surveilling the Russian Ambassador. If you talk to him, your conversations willing picked up and recorded, and the u. S. Intelligence will hear what youre saying, so dont do it. And flynn seems to have persisted in doing it anyway. I still have not heard any explanation besides possibly stupidity why he would do such a thing. When ah tayou take a good lo this article, what stands out is when they talk about the Transition Team knowing something, remember Vice President pence had no idea he had connections to russia. What does it tell you that now theres this report about what the Trump Transition Team knew . Does it tell you that maybe pence knew something more, or that the Transition Team was not being really fluid and transparent with the Vice President himself . Yeah, thats definitely a question that has to be asked at this point because, you know, if theres top Security Officials on the Transition Team, you would think they would be keeping, you know, the Vice President and the president in the loop. But at the same time, this might have been something that was kept separate from the top people in the transition. It might have not really raised to that level and thought that it could be something they could deal with without having to bring in the president. So its a question that has to be asked, but im not entirely sure what we can tell from what we have here. Lets listen here to the president because it seems hes still i mean he hasnt yet publicly condemned russia for the election hacking. I want to listen to what he said recently in an interview with cbs here. If you dont catch a hacker, okay, in the act, its very hard to say who did the hacking. With that being said, ill go along with russia. It could have been china. It could have been a lot of different groups. So President Trump is ambivalent about no. We have to find out what happened. Id love to find out what happened. I can tell you one thing. It had nothing to do with us. It had nothing to do with this, and everyone knows it. All right. David, your reaction to that. Well, the idea that it maybe wasnt russia, that it could be somebody else, thats an open question. That really flies in the face of a lot of pretty explicit conclusions from the u. S. Intelligence agencies who said it was russia. They interfered with the intention of helping donald trump. Now, whether donald trump knew about that and wanted them to help him, thats the subject of investigations now. But the Intelligence Community has been very clear about who they believe did it and why they believe did it. Its very training that President Trump repeatedly seeks to undermine it. Kyle, why do you think the president does not embrace what the Intelligence Community has proven thus far . I think it goes against a lot of what President Trump believes about himself. He likes to he really trusts in his own demeanor and his force of personality and believes thats the reason why he won the election. He doesnt want to believe that theres any sort of they got any sort of help. It was him versus Hillary Clinton in his mind, and there was no it happened in a vacuum, it seems like. So i dont think that its you know, a lot of people allege that he has russian connections and that kind of thing, but it seems its more based off of his own egotism and looking at himself as a personality that convinced these voters as opposed to possibly looking for some outside influence. David, just this morning between this Washington Post article thats come out and the information in france about the hacking and again, just to be very clear, we dont know that russia was behind any hacking involved in the french election. But how do you expect the president will respond to both of these news stories that are coming out this morning, and how soon might we hear from him . Well, if President Trump follows his previous patterns, he will either say nothing or dismiss the implications that these reports raise that russia is trying to help people who oppose sort of the european union, nato. Russia is undermining western institutions by supporting candidates like him and marine le pen. Its possible hell Say Something about that, but in the past hes tended to dismiss it or not comment on it at all. I do not expect some sort of condemnation of perhaps what russia has done in france. Is it important, kyle, for the president to condemn russia at this point . You would think under a past administration, it would probably seem like Standard Operating Procedure to condemn any sort of influence in democratic elections. But at this point with President Trump, if theres one thing we know, its that hes not conventional, and hes not like our past president s. So whether its important or not, i think a lot of people would like to see it. I dont think this is something that President Trump is overly worried about. Hes at this point looking at tax reform and looking at health care to the senate. Whether he is overly concerned about a french election, i dont know if that rises on his radar. Okay. Kyle and david, we appreciate both of you sticking around for us. Thank you. Thanks. Some good news this week. The u. S. Now at 4. 4 unemployment, the lowest rate in a decade. Heres cnns chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans with more on whats driving that number from the latest jobs report. Reporter 4. 4 is the jobless rate. Its a level many economists consider nearing full employment, meaning companies have to start competing for the workers, and that can start driving up wages. Now, we dont see that yet in this report. Wages just a stagnant 2. 5 . But 4. 4 unemployment is definitely a rate that is a milestone here. Lets look at where the jobs are created. 211,000 net new jobs. You can see that something happened in march. A cooldown in optimism among employers or hiring of employees. When you average out the last three months. 174,000 net new jobs created. Thats below the 208 or so it will take every month to fulfill the president s promise of 25 million new jobs over the next ten years or so. So still kind of a steady pace of hiring overall, and its good that it picked up a little bit in the most recent month. Where are the jobs gains . In financial services. Health care up 37,000 since obamacare was signed in 2010, a million and a half new jobs in health care. This would be a critical space to watch as Health Reform continues anew here in washington. Hospitals emboldened by the fact that so many more people are Getting Health Care and will be paying customers, they have been adding jobs for several years now. So could this cool the job creation in health care . That remains to be soon. Manufacturing also notable. 6,000 manufacturing jobs created in the month. Really over the past three months, youve seen jobs added in manufacturing. If you rewind the clock, last year at this time, we were losing jobs in manufacturing. So President Trumps policies, if not his rhetoric, are getting some of the credit for those jobs gains there. Christi and victor. Christine, thank you so much. It is the new smuggling threat for prisons across the country. How wardens are now fighting back against drones. Around christmas, the drones were coming in, dropping and going, dropping and going. Z2bg6z z10mz y2bg6y y10my i dont need to try to control you the u. S. And south korea we just didnt know we were coming up here. But were back. Were back. Everythings good. Lets talk about the u. S. And south korea denying this morning assassination claims made by north korea. The communist regime alleges they teamed up to try to kill its leader, kim jongun, with a biochemical weapon. North korea released a detailed report about the alleged attack. It didnt really give any evidence whatsoever. The report claims america recruited a north korean citizen to attack kim jongun at a military parade. North korea claims it foiled the assassination attempt. We need to note here north korea does have a history of making unfounded claims such as vowing to wipe out the u. S. With 5 million nuclear bombs. Cnn was not able to independently corroborate this latest allegation, we want to point out. You realize it was just a year ago when donald trump told crowds that china was, quote, raping our country. Now hes backing away from some of that tough talk and likely it is because of the growing tensions in north korea. Since President Trump took office, the u. S. Military has avoided sailing in parts of the contested South China Sea. The pentagon is now toning down how it refers to military action in the region to avoid seeming to be too aggressive. Cnn International Correspondent matt rivers is live in beijing for us. Matt, for this president , with such harsh rhetoric in his past about china raping the u. S. , being a currency manipulator, were seeing quite a few concessions made by the u. S. Now. Yeah, absolutely. I think what youre seeing under the Trump Administration when it comes to u. S. Military action in this part of the world is certainly different than what we saw during the latter years of the obama presidency. So lets remind our viewers exactly what was going on. In the last 18 months, there were three whats called freedom of navigation operations that were undertaken by the u. S. Navy in the South China Sea near chinesemade artificial islands. All three of those operations, which sent u. S. Navy ships on patrol within 12 nautical miles of chinesemade artificial islands in that part of the South China Sea all three of those operations were conducted under the Obama Administration. Once President Trump assumed the oval office, a senior u. S. Defense official tells cnn that the u. S. Military in the pacific requested to conduct one such operation, and that request was denied. That official telling cnn that that request was denied in part because of what you mentioned, that operations like that could be viewed as antagonizing china or north korea. And as we know, the president really wants china to help solve the ongoing crisis in the korean peninsula. So these kind of operations in the past have made beijing very upset. Its designed to challenge those chinese territorial claims with those artificial islands, and thats something the Obama Administration made quite public. So thats something at least for now that the Trump Administration says its not going to do. But another u. S. Defense official did tell cnn that at some point those freedom of navigation operations will likely resume at some point and that this is just a broader review of the overall program. But the fact remains that we dont have a time frame on when theyre going to start those operations again. And the chinese continue to militarize those artificial islands. For now the United States is not challenging those territorial claims. Such a dramatic shift for the president. Matt rivers for us in beijing. Thank you. Listen to this. Its the latest method for smuggling contraband into prisons. No flying over fences with a drone. Heres cnn National Correspondent deborah feyrick. Reporter at prisons throughout South Carolina, trees are being cut down and cleared. More guard towers are being built, and patrols have been added to bolster security beyond the razor wire fence. Its all because of these. Drones. A hightech threat to prison security, delivering drugs and other contraband to prisons across america. Prison Officials Say an inmate will coordinate with somebody on the outside, sending the date, the time, and the location of the drop. The inmate will then do countersurveillance, warning the drone operator if an officer is coming and the drop has to be made someplace else. The ability to access contraband, how much more power does that give to the inmates . It gives them a lot of power. I mean theyre making a lot of money behind bars in dealing with contraband and the scams they can run. Reporter brian sterling is the director of South Carolinas 22 prisons and detention centers. He says this is about five months worth of drugs, tobacco, cell phones, chargers, and other contraband smuggled in the oldfashioned way, hidden in things like books or body cavitys. Now add drones. I talked to a sheriff and he said it was Like Washington national. They were just around christmas, the drones were coming in, dropping and going, dropping and going. They had numbers on them. And the numbers were corresponding to inmates. Reporter the problem has become so significant, lawmakers in the South Carolina senate recently passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to fly drones within 500 feet of prison walls or 250 feet above the prison itself. The penalty is a 500 fine and 30 days in prison. Other states like arizona, oklahoma, oregon, and tennessee have or are considering similar legislation. The problem is not just in the u. S. But europe as well. In london, an inmate here signaling his precise location to a drone operator. The british media also reporting drones may have been used to smuggle in wirecutting tools used in a prison escape. Sterling says South Carolina is spending millions to secure its prison per imters, making it hard for people smuggling contraband to hide. Several Drone Operators have been prosecuted and are now serving time. We looked at shooting them down, but theres a lot of innate dangers there too. So we feel like our hands are tied. Reporter the drone assault is not likely to let up. Drone sales expected to surge from 2. 5 million in 2016 to 7 million by 2020. Deborah feyrick, cnn, columbia, South Carolina. Wow. All righty. We are about 12 hours away from the most exciting two minutes in sports. So excited about the Kentucky Derby he pulled out his bow tie. Good morning to you. Good morning, victor and christi. Roses, mint juleps, with everybody flashing fashion. Its the fastes two minutes in sports. The run for the roses, the Kentucky Derby day on this new day. 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Good morning to you and christi as well. We have an incredible story of perseverance, a 54yearold trainer of a horse named gunnevera was the top trainer in venezuela. Then he was kidnapped for ransom not once, but twice. On the second time, he was held for 36 days, chained to a wall in a room with no windows, toilet or running water. Hardly any food. He lost 40 pounds. He didnt know if he would ever see his family again. Listen. I think maybe they killing me. I pray every day the opportunity to be free of my kidnapping and come to the United States. After my kidnappings are no more in venezuela, i take my wife and kids and go to the United States. Sa know no moved his family florida, starting from scratch. Now eight years later, sano has the chance to win the Kentucky Derby with gunnevera, putting the cherry on top of this incredible story of overcoming the o. A oneeyed horse named patch had his left eye removed last year after his infection set in. Hes a long shot to win the derby. 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