Transcripts For CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20190319 : c

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20190319

Fbi to investigate cindy yang. Cindy yang once owned that massage parlor that new England Patriots bob kraft was caught up in, soliciting prostitution. She has some previous relationship with the president of the United States. What is behind this request with schiff . Its just to make sure we dont have any individual who potentially could be connected, you know, to the Chinese Government who is drawing themselves close to the trump organization. Now, lets just all admit the trump team has priors, right . Theyve done this with the russians. They allowed the russians to come in in a way that no president ial campaign or transition ever would allow. Theyve done this with the saudis where theyve allowed us to get close to the saudis to the point where we cant call them out for killing a u. S. Resident, u. S. Journalist on nato allys soil. Theyve got priors that should concern us. I cant say more than that right now, other than we have reason to look. Yeah. So you joined me the night before beto orourke jumped in. Now hes raised 6. 1 good for beto. Thats a lot of money. 6. 1 million in 24 hours. Youve suggested you might get into the race. There is a crowded field. I said by the end of the month. There is a crowded field out there. The American People are getting to know them. Do you want to be part of the crowd that the American People are getting to know . I do have deep interest in leading this country because i know why people work hard and what they expect it to add up to. I saw my parents do that. The promise of america, when you work hard and do better for yourself and for your kids, its not reaching every neighborhood, its not reaching every floor of every building. Its something that i lived and continue to live today as a father of two kid kids paying off my student loan debt. I see generationally i can bring optimism and inventiveness to a washington that needs it. Don, ive been in these fights for the last seven years as our democracy has been on the line. The country knows ive stood firm to face the threats from the outside and the attacks on the inside. You said by the end of the month. Just a little over the halfway at the halfway mark. Soon. Were getting there. Very soon. Im pushing you. Thank you, congressman. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. The president attacking a war hero, senator john mccain, just months after he passed away. One of mccains closest friends responds next. About 50 of people with evesevere asthma k . Have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. Fasenra is an addon injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. Fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. Fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. 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Trump griping on twitter about mccains no vote for the Obamacare Repeal bill and claiming that mccain was last in his class at the navy academy, which actually is not true. Trump also falsely suggested that mccain was responsible for spreading the russia dossier to the media, but according to court documents, a mccain associate and former state Department Diplomat received copies of the dossier in 2016 and shared it with a reporter at buzzfeed. So why does the president keep going after john mccain . Here with me now to discuss is grant woods. Hes a former Arizona Attorney general who was a very good friend of the late senator john mccains. Thank you so much for joining us, mr. Woods. I really appreciate it. For coming on and talking about it. Thank you for having me on, don. Yeah, absolutely. So the president attacked john mccain on twitter again. Why is he still so obsessed with attacking a war hero who passed away seven months ago . Well, thats a good question, you know . I think all of us could probably, oh, you know, we could spend the rest of our lives trying to psychoanalyze this guy and its probably not worth the time, frankly, but obviously the president does not understand that people who are your opponents, people who are in the opposite Political Parties are not your enemies, at the end of the day were all americans, and, you know, we dont get too many heros in this world and in this country and Everybody Knows john mccain was an american hero. He was one of our very best. And so it doesnt reflect on john mccain to have him continually attacked like this, it reflects on donald trump. It demeans not mccain, it demeans the presidency and it demeans donald trump. I was surprised because john mccain wrote about the dossier in his book and said for all the critics he didnt, you know, they can go to you know what. But he shared it with the fbi. Which was probably what he was supposed to do, is share it with Law Enforcement sure. If someone sends you information like that. Thats what happened. He got the information and he read it and its pretty explosive. He immediately delivered it to the fbi and said this is for you all to deal with. Thats what thats what a statesman does. Thats what a Good American does. And thats what john mccain did. Thats what an ethical person should do and would do. So his daughter, meghan, responded to the president on the view today. Check it out. He spends his weekend obsessing over great men because he knows it and i know it and all of you know it, he will never be a great man. My father was his kryptonite in life. Yeah. Hes his kryptonite in death. I just thought your life is spent on your weekends not with your family, not with your friends but obsessing, obsessing over great men you could never live up to. Yeah. That tells you everything you need to know about his pathetic life right now. I thought that was a very classy response. I thought it was right on. And i just cant imagine having to respond to attacks after your loved one has died. The attacks by the president of the United States. Its very unfair to the family. Its awful. It is unfair to the family, but, you know, its a measure of the man and its a measure of cindy mccain that they have they have great kids and their kids can handle this. You know, ive known them ive known meghan since she was a baby and all of the kids and theyre all fantastic. So that i think thats a measure of them as parents and john as a man. Look, People Like Us who got to be around and in government at a time when john mccain was around and in government, we were the lucky ones. And we know how heroic he was. And, don, to me, he was he was heroic the first day i met him, the first day he stepped into the United States senate and he was heroic in the last week that he was in the senate when he went and gave the speech trying to get everybody to come together as americans to solve problems and when he had the guts to walk on to that senate floor and Save Health Care for millions of americans by giving them the thumbs down. That was heroic. He shouldnt have even been there. I spent the weekend with him up at the cabin that weekend before, when he flew out to washington on monday, and it was pretty clear he was going to go to mayo on monday and the doctors were going to tell him dont fly, dont do it. He just had brain surgery. You could die en route. John mccain didnt flinch for a second. He was saying, well, well see what they say. When we talked on the side it was like, yeah, im going. Yeah. I need to be there. I need to go. I have a duty to go. So, hey, john mccains a hero and donald trump wont be there after a period of time. He was heroic in how he fought cancer and fought it up until the very end. Listen, judging from i watched meghan today and people called john Mccain Lindsey graham, john mccains best friend. Im not so sure about that, you know, judging from her reaction. Maybe im reading something into it. He seemingly tweeted a response saying nothing about john mccains service will ever be changed or diminished. Didnt call the president out by name. It seemed like a tepid response to me, very disappointing response. Are you disappointed by that . You know, don, i dont know. I think senator graham has a lot of positive qualities and certainly he and john had a lot of great times together and did a lot of good things together. Ive been disappointed by a lot of things senator grahams done, cozying up to President Trump so much and trying to be his best friend all of a sudden. It seems to me hes showing that, unfortunately, hes not that different than most politicians in that the top five most important things in their lives are to be reelected and to be reelected and to be reelected. Thats what its all about. One thing i learned a long time, i learned it in politics and in life, you dont walk past an old friend to try to make a new friend, and i think senator graham at some point in his life will reflect on that and realize that he shouldnt have done that. That you can try to do your best to make a good situation out of this presidency as best you can, try to influence the president positively, but when it comes down to your close friend, a person who meant so much to you and who is an american hero, you draw the line there and you stand up for your friend and you stand up strongly for your friend, as all americans really should do and most of them do. Grant woods, thank you. Our regards to the mccain family as well, okay . Okay. Thank you, don. Thanks for having this segment on and thanks for letting us talk about our friend and our hero, john mccain. Absolutely. Come back any time. The white house chief of staff insisting that President Trump is not a white supremacist. Were going to discuss what theyre saying and wont say about White Nationalism. Next. What if other kinds of plants captured it too . If these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. Carbon capture is Important Technology and experts agree. Thats why were working on ways to improve it. So plants. Can be a little more. Like plants. Blue moon is a belgian style wheat beer. Brewed with valencia orange peel for a flavorful refreshing taste that rises above. They have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. 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To simply ask the question every time this happens overseas or say domestically, oh, my goodness, it must somehow be the president s fault speaks to a politicization that is undermining the institutions we have in the country today. How many times do i have to say this, do we have to say this . It cant be good, seriously, when youre trying to convince the world that the president is not a white supremacist. I know you disagree with him on this. I do disgray. Its a pretty big thing to say. On the other hand, they also like to say facts dont care about your feelings. Here are facts. Donald trump during the election campaign, gone, he retweeted a guy whose literal twitter handle was white genocide. He was endorsed by White Nationalists like the kkk and david duke who he only belatedly disavowed. He appointed a White Nationalist as a delegate in california. After becoming president , he appointed his chief strategist steve bannon who proudly bragged that breitbart was the platform of the altright. He appointed sebastian gar ka. He called nazis in charlottesville very fine people. His National Economic adviser hosted a White Nationalist at his Birth Day Party last week. Medi, i only have so much time. This is only an hour show. I can go on all night. Heres my point, don, it doesnt matter whether Mick Mulvaney we can debate whether hes a White Nationalist or not. The point is the White Nationalists think hes a White Nationalist. So, scott, you just heard what medi just said. Give him the benefit of the doubt if you want. A lot of his rhetoric is welcomed by White Nationalists. He uses a lot of the same terminology and rhetoric. If he doesnt want to give them me comfort and encouragement, why doesnt he just stop it and stop retweeting things from what nationalists and on and on . I think the president is not a White Nationalist. Don, you and i have talked about this many times, i think he has fallen short on his language on many occasions. But i dont think falling short on your language or rhetoric automatically connects you to the actions of some person who commits an awful atrocity in some other country. Some people have tried to make that connection. Look, i think this whole issue is going to keep coming up because there are people who want to continue to feed this narrative. As long as there are, there are going to be people like Mick Mulvaney who go out and defend the president. Were going to have rinse and repeat. I dont see this cycle ending before the end of this presidency. Folks are going to want to believe it. Folks are going to want to defend it. Neither side wants to give an inch. Karen, i want to bring you in here. The president downplays White Nationalism. Why cant he unequivocally condemn White Nationalism in all forms, do you think . Well because, number one, he is someone who has espoused racist beliefs and ideologies since his early days in real state working with his father when, you know, the applications from africanamericans got a c for colored on them, right . And the central park five and the so the history goes on and on and on. And so the thing that he could do as president would be to how think about how do you use the bully pulpit . How do you use the power of the presidency not just to say and acknowledge that White Nationalism is on the rise, but that also we dont support White Nationalists in this country. We believe that is a form of in this country, domestic terrorism, and we know it is now actually a growing form of terrorism around the globe. How could he use the department of justice or other tools of government to make it clear and make a stand against White Nationalism, White Supremacy or as, you know, was steve king who kind of said, when did all these words become, you know, so bad . Well, theyve always been bad. Its always been wrong. Its never been good to use the presidency to mainstream racist ideology. Yeah. Medi, criminology experts widely agree that the gunmans manifestos shouldnt be widely publicized. Senior white house aide Kellyanne Conway said otherwise. Here it is. Unlike other Mass Shootings, this man came with prereceipts. He put out a 70page manifesto. He said he aligns closely with the ideology of china. He said hes not a conservative. Hes not a nazi. I think he referred to himself as an eco naturalist or an eco fascist. But people should read it in its entirety. Medi, is the administration more concerned about avoiding blame and acknowledging and responding to the facts from the fbi and other agencies and the gunmans words. They know this is an issue. They see the statistics more than we do, don. They know, for example, you know, the 50 increase in White Nationalist groups in 2018, according to the southern poverty law center. Massive increase in hate crimes on their watch. Rather than dealing with that, Mick Mulvaney was asked on fox news yesterday, why doesnt the president give a speech or an address where he denounces this once and for all . He could got answer that question. That is a problem don. That is a real issue. To respond to what scott said earlier about this being two sides arguing this out. Lets be real here, if isis had blown up something during the Obama Presidency and said obama was a symbol of r

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