Republican party is going through a very hard time. There has been a fight inside the Republican Party for a long time. It was the primary. Trump won. He won on issues and united the party. The Republican Party is imploding. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Up first, growing questions about possible connections between the Trump Campaign and wikileaks. Sources tell cnn that a Data Analytics Company Working for the Trump Campaign is seeking access to emails connected to Hillary Clintons campaign. President trump, however, spending his time slamming Hillary Clinton and the democrats for denying they knew about an antitrump dossier. A source tells cnn clinton didnt know about the dossier but says she was disappointed it wasnt made public before the election. All of this as Top Senate Republicans are asking why the Trump Administration is holding up tough new sanctions on russia. We have it all covered. Lets begin with shimon. Wha
Reporter it is sort of a sense of surprise here at the white house simply because theres a big difference between declaring a Public Health emergency and declaring a president ial emergency under the emergency the National Emergency act. Much more sweeping powers, the president has, under the emergencies act, including waiving privacy laws and waiving medicare regulations, and creating the ability to have more beds to treat substance abuse. While the Public Safety emergency, the Public Health emergency we will hear about today is much more limited. We have had a number of those, and a number of those are in effect right now around the country, but the first time the last time a Public Health emergency of this type was declared goes all the way back to 2009. So the white house pushing back this morning on the idea that they have reneged or changed direction, nonetheless its clear that the white house believes a Public Health emergency is the right way to go on the Opioid Crisis. It open
Trump embarked on his first trip to asia as president. The 12day five country vits it could be the most crucial yet. While the white house would love to focus on that, there are renewed questions about russia and having russia stealing the spotlight, once again. My mother is mum bling today. Before boarding air force one the president who has on more than one occasion said he has the best memory had this to say about former adviser George Papadopoulos and the picture of that march 31st 2016 Foreign Policy meeting. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopoulos during that march meeting . I dont remember much about that meeting. It was very unimportant meeting. Dont remember much about it. Do you stand by your claim that you never the Campaign Never talked to anybody from russia . Do you stand by that claim . All i can tell you is this, there was no collusion. For days the white house insisted that papadopoulos was a low level adviser with little to no contact with the president. I
Anybody in the national press. Ive been teased for it. Criticized for it. I know the intensity of our coverage, of what we now know of, the russia scandal, our dedication to the story, by necessity has squeezed out time that we may have devoted to other stories. I know that. Im totally cognizant of that. On this of all days, heres why we have covered it so intensely. Since it first became clear that there was something wrong and illicit and unexplained about the relationship between this particular foreign adversary and the unlikely rise of this unlikely politician who shocked everyone by winning the last u. S. President ial election, there was no reason as a president ial candidate he would stick with some care to say anything remotely critical about russia and its president. There was no reason why he would dig out of the vault a Campaign Chairman who had not worked in american politics for more than a generation but he had spent more than a decade doing Vladimir Putins work in the s
All we can do now is keep moving forward and grow into these people that we have determined to be. Back to that big story in a moment. We begin with a new charge today from the Russia Special counsel, and with that charge a major message. Lie or hide and you will be charged. Todays surprise, Robert Mueller charging a british lawyer for lying to investigators. At issue, his interaction with rick gates, who is already under indictment and who is now trying to make a plea deal. His longtime partner, paul manafort, who was a chairman with the campaign and whose business ties with russia are brought to the attention of mueller. The special counsel is well aware of these new charges. Shimon, how important is this to the substance of the Mueller Investigation and might it be, forgive me, more important to the tenor of the Mueller Investigation . I would say it goes more to the tenor. This lawyer looks like hes charnld with lying abo charged with lying about an interaction he had with rick gat