for the president. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. welcome to your new day. it s friday, march 30th. john berman joins me today. up first, a development in the russia investigation. cnn learned why special counsel robert mueller wants cooperation of former trump campaign deputy rick gates. court documents indicates that gates could be critical to nabbing even bigger fish in a collusion case involving the kremlin. president trump s pick for va secretary drawing criticism and skepticism. dr. ronnie jackson tapped to oversee 360,000 federal employees and a budget of $186 billion. he has virtually no management experience. according to the washington post, dr. jackson himself was taken aback when he got the news that the president wanted to nominate him and expressed hess tans in taking the job. shimon prokupecz is live in
brought you the best pictures by, for and about women. this one, timely, as march ends, baseball season begins. that means jessica mendoza is back. espn s first female analyst on baseball games. she s getting ready for her third season on the network s sunday night baseball team. one of two women regularly in a broadcast booth calling major league games. jessica is hoping more women follow her lead and the networks give them the chance. she say, women that don t watch sports would want to if they felt they were being spoken to. the photographer here, ben salman for espn images. right now, for news with my colleague, chris jansing. first, go indians. go red sox. it ll get ugly through the season. hello, everyone. i m chris jansing. ali velshi and stephanie ruhle are off. it is friday, march 30th. let s get started. breaking news in the escalating feud between the united states and russia.
for all of us. can you spell tgif? you better, today is friday, march 30th. thanks for sharing your time today. i m gretchen carlson. the media not backing off trying the trayvon martin on tv and across the technological sphere and you can add oprah winfrey to that list. we ll tell you what she said coming up. in a little over an hour from
this mng o this morning on world news now autism epidemic. the dramatic increase in the number of american children diagnosed with autism or similar conditions. public health experts say 1 in 88 kids in the u.s. is autistic. and advocates are demanding more research and better services. it s friday, march 30th. from abc news, this is world news now. good friday morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. i m tanya rivero. paula faris is on assignment. those startling new numbers on autism appear to be a sign of better diagnosis skills over the past few years. and it s not necessarily a dramatic upswing in the number of cases federal experts say. but it s still alarming and a big wake-up call for the health
- tale of the tape. what we learned about this police surveillance video showing george zimmerman the night he shot trayvon martin. for the first time, zimmerman s family, his brother, weighs in on these now famous images. it is friday, march 30th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m tanya rivero in for paula faris. nice to have you back in the saddle again. thanks. my old friend. nice to be back. good morning, everybody. happy friday. i m rob nelson.