he called the president an idiot. i believe him. >> the train is fully off the rails. announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to your "new day" -- it's friday -- it's not friday. it's actually tuesday, may 1st but i was excited for a second. >> just keep saying it. and we will be home tomorrow morning. >> it might be 8:00 in the east or it might not. okay. >> it's past it now. >> exactly. what is the prompter doing? we now know what special counsel robert mueller wants to talk to president trump about if he were to sit down for an interview. there are nearly four dozen questions that were provided to president trump's legal team and they have now been leaked to the "the new york times." the president tweeting about it this morning writing in part, so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. once again insisting it was very hard to obstruct justice for a

crime that never happened. witch hunt. >> so the questions from mueller's team, they focus on four categories. you got the trump campaign's ties to russia. that goes to the part of the mandate that's about finding information or activity that coordinated with russian interference. doesn't mean it's necessarily a crime. then you have the motivations of former fbi director james comey and michael flynn. it also goes into the realm of potential criminalality. attorney general jeff sessions recusal. so do the president's actions amount to obstruction of justice, very different question. let's discuss with former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst michael zeldin who also served as robert mueller's special assistant at the doj. you are also that former prosecutor so i will swing this stick at you as well, the idea that this is a good faith set of

questions and there's a measure of deference here to the president of the united states that may well not be given to other subjects of an interview for good reason because of his unique position, fine, but the idea that you guys would give questions that show your hand and that are a full complement of all the things you know and want revealed, i just don't buy that. do you see this as a starting point or a really good road map for trump's lawyers to say, you're going to be fine, mr. president, this is all they want? >> my expectation is that mueller and his team in a communication with the white house counsel's office gave the white house counsel's office a list of topic areas that they will want to cover in the interview. the white house then created its own list of questions within those topics to help inform the president and the lawyers about what those topics might include. i think that that's deference to the president and appropriate

and undermines any notion that mueller is out to perjury trap the president. i think this is all arm's length, good faith dealings, given the importance of the conversation to the nation and to the president individually. >> so president trump at least according to his tweets is acting as though he's outraged, shocked, shocked that these things have been leaked and he's very upset. he goes back and calls it a witch hunt and all of that stuff. but could this help the president? who does this leak benefit? >> well, it seems to me that this leak came from somebody connected to trump's legal team and the question is why and we don't know for sure. if i had a guess it would be that someone in trump's legal team doesn't want him to sit down for an interview and is hoping that the leak will help convince him not -- he shouldn't do that. that would be my best guess. >> why would it do that?

because the scope is so broad, he would see how many questions there are, that would deter him? >> no, because people like us on television would be saying that this is a really bad idea and perhaps he listens to television more than he listens to his own advisers, at least that's what i hear from reading newspapers. >> perhaps. we just had someone on here that the intelligence community has known much of from netanyahu's said. i'm 100% right. so obviously he's not listening to the best minds around him all the time. he also just said something, michael, i want you to correct. it would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened. witch hunt. that's not what i was taught in law school. obstruction of justice is its own stand alone crime regardless of the underlying activity, true or false? >> true. and the answer is, of course, if there's an investigation that's ongoing, whether or not it's going to lead to an indictment or not, if you endeavor to

interfere with that investigation or interfere with what they call the due administration of justice, irrespective whether there's an underlying crime that's chargeable or will be charged, you can interfere with that investigation and commit the crime of obstruction of justice. >> i don't ask that as a got you. the reason i ask it is, that's the fundamental reason of the case, you fired comey when you didn't need to and then you triggered the special counsel. the concerns about the implications could motivate action and corrupt intent. that's obstruction. >> i don't think michael took it as a got you. he hit it out of the park with one hand. >> the president will. his supporters here. >> here's not a got you but certainly an open ended question that it could get the president in trouble. here is one of the questions that we know was on that list, this is about the campaign coordination with russia, when did you become aware of the

trump tower meeting is what of course mueller's investigators would like to know because the president has given, you know, varying responses about this. here's some audio in an interview that the president gave to the "the new york times" in july of 2017 trying to answer that question. >> i didn't look at it very closely. i just heard there was an email requesting a meeting or something -- requesting a meeting that they had information on hillary clinton, and i said, i mean, that's standard political stuff. >> did you know at the time they had the email? >> no, i didn't know anything about it. it must have been a very important meeting. >> no one told you a word? >> no, i didn't -- it's a very un -- sounded like a very unimportant meeting. >> there you go. yeah, i knew there was an email request. no, i knew nothing about the

meeting. that works withournalists but not with mueller's investigators. >> that's right. you'll get very pointed follow-up questions from mueller and his team, or at least that's what i would expect trump to get. one thing i would say, too, chris a moment ago was talking about giving these questions in advance and why you do that. one thing that really stuck out to me is, that question you just read alisyn, it's very high level and vague and open ended. a lot of the questions on topics other than obstruction were like that. the obstruction questions were very narrow, very specific. they dealt with specific topics and i think that's because a lot of those subjects have already been covered in newspapers and on television. they're already well-known in the public. the issue of what trump few about the trump tower meeting -- that we don't really know a lot about publicly and perhaps on those subjects, mueller's team is being much more gartded about what they know. >> the distinction is huge,

michael, because to give alisyn more of a pat on the back than e was given herself there a second ago, she'd ask the follow-up questions and he may tell the truth, he may not. >> sure. they did. i don't mean to throw "the new york times" under the bus. i just mean that he can get away with having that kind of inconsistency with journalists. >> and that's why -- if i were counsel for the president, you guys are far superior legal minds, i don't like these questions. i don't like these questions, michael, because i don't like not knowing where the road ends. i only know where the road begins and if he says i saw an email but i didn't know anything about the meeting, now there's -- which is it? i saw an email but i don't know what happened at the meeting? you never were told anything about happened. no, i was never told anything. so when this guy told you that he told you and maybe they'd have to talk to you -- i do remember -- so it wasn't true -- you know how that line goes. that's very dangerous.

>> well, he has hired martin and jane ras kin, to wonderful lawyers out of florida along with rudy giuliani and those guys have the task of preparing the president for an interview if he decides to go forward with the interview. what you just did there, that mock cross-examination is exactly what these guys need to do with the president so that when he walks into that interview, he has gamed this all out, not in a game sense, but he has prepared himself for this interview. he knows what they know as much as they're able to, so that he can answer these questions as truthfully and fulsomely as possible. >> another burning question, here's one that mueller's team would like to know, what involvement did you have in the communications strategy including the release of don jr.'s email, the air force one statement about that russian

meeting? and so renato, your point is so well taken. whoever leaked all of this wants what we're doing right now to be happening because then the president can watch it and say, okay, now i see the spider web very clearly, so thanks, but no thanks. i don't need to sit down for that interview. >> that's right. look, i represent people now who are under investigation i don't let them go and talk to prosecutors. i'm very careful about that. you wouldn't -- a person as a defense attorney would not do that unless they felt very confident that that would move the ball forward, that their client really doesn't have as much liability as the government thinks and here, from looking at these questions and frankly, we already -- anyone who's been following this knows, there's some very serious potential liability for the president of the united states, and so if you're representing him, you want to keep him as far as away from the prosecutor as possible. not because there's any trap

here, this is a very -- they're being -- they're bending over backwards to try to convince him to sit down that's why they're doing this, but i think they want it a little too much. >> if the lawyer team really had any control over their client, the president, they would not have him tweeting things like, there are no questions on collusion, it's a phony crime, never existed, investigation began -- you're saying that on these questions, the men and women who are going to talk to you about it will remember. if they had control over him, he wouldn't be saying these things. >> the way they communicate with him is through cable television. >> maybe that's why. >> so -- >> elaborate -- >> one second, two seconds. >> i think it's not so much to convince the president not to talk, but rather to help the president decide whether to talk. that's what's at play. >> thank you very much. we appreciate all of your help

with that. u.s. immigration officials are now processing central americans from that caravan we've spoken so much about that arrived at the u.s./mexico border and of course they're seeking asylum. cnn's leyla santiago has been with them all along the trip. she's live in mexico with more. what's the latest this morning? >> reporter: right now we still have members of that caravan awaiting for their turn. you can see they are still camped out there. last night, alisyn, eight members of the group were allowed in. i'm told this that border patrol came out and said, we can now process eight. among the group about 20 to 30 women that were at the door waiting for their turn. they actually selected themselves, the eight that would get to go in. we have three mothers, four children and 18-year-old and among them, two families that we have followed for weeks now, one of them being gabriella who we've told you her sister. she's a pregnant mother of two children. we followed her on buses.

we followed her on trains and in shelters. the other one tesla reese, we also followed her story, both of them saying they're fleeing violence and poverty in honduras. what will happen next, they will have to go through a series of interviews, establish credible fear and navigate a very complicated court system as they try to legally seek asylum. border patrol saying they have detained some suspected members of the caravan crossing illegally but these organizers are taking issue with that. there's no way of knowing they were ever attached to this caravan and that they have only advised migrants to cross legally through this port of entry, chris. >> and you've been making it very clearly, these are largely families and people who say they are fleeing a very specific threat. we'll see if they can prove it to u.s. authorities satisfaction. thank you very much for being with those people. we know it's taxing but important. former green party candidate jill stein's campaign is refusing tully comply wh a

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facts straight. we complied with everything relevant to the question of russian interfeerns. we turned over all of our communications with russian media, government, business, although there was no communications to turn over like-wise anything having to do with wikileaks or with opposition research or fusion gps, we actually fulfilled all the requests, most of them were blank. we didn't have any such communications and what we did have with russian government and media was really related to what time we were going to show up for an h.t. appearance and the logistics of our trip to the conference in moscow with r.t. all of that was turned over. what we didn't turn over was material that basically protects the civil liberties of all americans. at a time when our civil liberties are really being seriously eroded, for example,

the use of our private data. we have a privacy protection as part of our civil liberties but that's been horribly violated. 87 million americans have basically had their data taken and there are up to 2,000 data points on every american that are being used -- >> listen, i hear you about that. we've been covering it and the potential need for regulation and what will the industry do, however, back to you, what did you do -- >> exactly. >> what did you not turn over in the name of civil liberties? >> exactly. what we did not turn over -- and i should add, we also turned over our policy positions which were the same as what we said publicly throughout the campaign, so there was nothing hidden there. we've turned over our policy. we it not turn over was our internal discussions about policy which were really no great shakes because there was not really -- not much difference between the policies that the gene party has held for a long time and the policies of

the campaign. it's not like there's some, you know, special golden goose that we're protecting here or some vulnerable conversation, but rather we're standing up on a principle and that is the principle that's part of the first amendment, our right to basically freedom of association and that -- that needs to be protected and the courts have always upheld that -- >> we'll see. there will be some litigation here if the government really decides if they want. we'll see how it plays out. let me ask you something, with all of the information that's come out since the campaign period, do you still have reservations about whether or not russia interfered in our election and did so with obvious negative intent? >> so let me say i think it would be naive to think that russia did not try to interfere. certainly that's what the united states does and that's not to justify it. interference is wrong and it's

an assault against democracy, and it should be pursued, but we should pursue it knowing that we do it too as james wolfly the former cia head recently said publicly, i believe it was on fox, yes, we're doing that and we always do it and the records show we do it about twice as much as the russians over the course of the past -- really since the second world war. this is an issue and it should be solved, i think, not by, you know, retribution, not by going to war, knots by saber rattling, it should be solved really through dialogue and diplomacy which is showing, you know, that it gets real results on the korean peninsula right now. we need to adopt that position right now and not go at it with bombs and missiles and threats, but with international dialogue and we need a treaty for international in elections. >> that would be the case for russia to make, not from the american perspective. of course, there's hypocrisy involved, lots of different big

stake actors do lots of things they don't want people to know about. let russia say the united states did it to us so this is fair play. from the american perspective and you running for president, more than once of this country, shouldn't your position have been, this was bad what they did. they're trying to do it right now and we have to stop it. >> you know, i think that kind of position which says that we're in a totally different category from the rest of the world is not working. this century of american domination, you know, sort of didn't play out the way we thought it would, we're embroiled now -- we have the military in practically every country around the world. in the recent taxes that people pay the average american paid almost $3,500 that went into the department of offense, i would call it, not the department of defensive, whereas we put $40 into the epa, 57% of our discretionary dollars now are going into the military.

it is part of a mindset that says, we're always right and they're always wrong and we're going to be dominating militarily and economically. we're in a multi-polar world right now and we need to behave as an exlem pary remember of the community and that is by upholding ourselves and leading the way on international law, human rights and diplomacy. that approach is really paying off on the korean peninsula right now, i think we should be using it more broadly. >> that's an interesting nod to the success of the administration and it's echoed by many others. we'll see where it goes. hopefully there is peace on the korean peninsula. that may be something that russia is not that interested in and that goes to why there's such tensions between the countries. let me ask you one last thing, why did you go to the r.t. anniversary and put yourself in that position? you had to know that it would have negative implications for you politically a optically? >> remember, this was 2015 and

this was at the time that our president barack obama was still on a track of the reboot with russia, so, you know, we can -- when we use the retrospecca scope it's important to put it in the context of the time. it wasn't nearly as controversial as it is now. it's really important, with that said, diplomacy is all about talking with the people that you have real problems with and that was really my intent. on that trip i not only talked with some low level russian officials, i actually did not speak with vladimir putin, although i would have liked to, but there was not any opportunity to do that, i also spoke with jeremy corbin, i spoke with deputy climate negotiator for china about the real issues, the crisis that we have to solve and we have to solve them in dialogue and diplomacy and that's not only the war in the middle east and in syria, it's also this confrontation with nuclear

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stormy daniels is now suing president trump for defamation. the lawsuit stems from the president's tweet on april 18th dismissing this composite sketch of a man that daniels says threatened her over her alleged affair with donald trump more than a decade ago. the president wrote this, a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job playing the fake news media for fools but they know it. joining us now is michael avenatti. thanks for being here. so hs that defamation when he didn't even mention her in the tweet? >> he doesn't have to mention

her by name in order for it to institute defamation under the law. it's clear as to who he was referring to, it was clear he was referring to the lease of the sketch and his claim that this was a nonexistent man and what's interesting, alisyn, is, if he didn't have anything to do with stormy daniels and he didn't know about anything that happened in 2011 or nothing about the agreement, which is the nonsense they're trying to sell the american public on then how would we know whether there was a nonexistent man or not. >> how can you prove a nonexistent's man nonexistence. >> that's an interesting question. what will be able to prove is that this actually happened and that it occurred and he's going to be put in a position to have to substantiate his claim that it didn't happen. >> when you say you'll be able to prove it happen beyond her word, what else is there? >> i think we'll be able to identify this individual. we're getting very close to doing that and there's other evidence that's going to come to light that's going to substantiate her claim.

>> because of the sketch? have there been tips? >> absolutely. we've made considerable progress over the last ten days or so. >> just one more thing, you think the police will identify who this man is? >> yes. >> you're seeking damages, so i think 75,000 is what i read. are you seeking $75,000 in damages and what damages it stormy daniels suffer from the president claiming that this didn't happen? >> the $75,000 is the jurisdictional minimum in order to be in that court. we'll seek damages in excess of that. we're not required under the law to prove what's called special damages because we maintain that this was a per se defamation. let me say this, there's some actual legal pundits in the last 24 hours that suggest that had because my client is an adult film star that she can't be damaged or defamed and i'm outraged by that. >> that her reputation, they would say, is sullied because of her career so she can't be damaged? >> that's basically -- or the ill logic. it's almost suggesting that

because of how a woman addresses she could be raped and that's okay. i'm outraged by that line of logic and a lot of people should be outraged by it. >> what do you want them to know or understand about stormy daniels? >> regardless a woman's profession, she's still entitled to have people speak about her in a truthful manner, all because you engage in a certain profession does not mean you check the ability at the door to be treated with respect and dignity. it's outrageous especially in today's day and times. this isn't the 1950s where people turn a blind eye to this nonsense. >> the white house was the correspondents dinner and there were some surreal moments -- there's always this confluence of politics and celebrity and the media and so i saw you at this party, preparty before the white house correspondents dinner on friday night -- >> you looked lovely, by the way. >> you were dashing as well. but what really got peoples' attentionas the moment when kellyanne conway, the president's counselor entered

the party and you were right there and there was this scrum of paparazzi and let me pull up the picture, because everybody was sort of crowded around all of you, don lemon looks like he's presiding at your wedding. it looks like he's the minister at your wedding to kellyanne conway and i'm just -- obviously you two are on opposite sides of this case, what was this moment like? >> let me be clear, we're not getting married and we're not engaged. that's not going to happen. >> despite the photographic evidence. >> that's correct. kellyanne and i met for the first time at that event, it was a rather spirited discussion and will leave it at that. >> what guys did you discuss? what could you discuss? when you first see her, what did you say to each other? >> we initially introduced ourselves and we actually discussed the fact that we both went to the same law school just as a coincidence and things progressed from there. i don't want to get into the details but it was spirited. >> but was it -- did you have a heated conversation?

>> i wouldn't describe it as heated, it was spirited. we're both passionate in our positions. we don't hesitate to articulate as much. >> was it as surreal for you as it was for me witnessing it? >> i would agree with that. >> michael avenatti great to talk to you. thank you very much. chris? the blockbuster merger case coming to a close. now it's up to a judge to decide if at&t can acquire time warner, the parent company of cnn. details next.

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what is the suggestion about the time involved in the deliberations? >> so the judge said that on june 12th he's going to hold a hearing and that's when he will announce his ruling on this case. he said there's a possibility that he could rule before hand but i don't think that's likely because he has noted many times that he's going to take a long time to reach this decision. his opinion will be more than 200 pages long. that june 12th date is only nine date before the deadline. some people are speculating that gives a signal that he's going to approve the merger. it's completely not clear. what is clear is that we have reporting that the judge has actually asked both sides in their post trial briefs to give him five pages on remedies, things that they think that they can do to help alleviate any antitrust concerns. in their closing arguments, the justice department said, per your direction, we think if there was any sort of remedy, that at&t should be forced to selloff the turner networks including cnn because their concern is by at&t owning time

warner content including turner is that at&t would have unfair leverage over their competitors, we'd be able to get higher prices out of them, attract more subvibers and the government is alleging that your every day cable bills would go up. at&t says that's not the case but it's ultimately up to the judge to decide that. >> why is that interesting? it's interesting because while that is sometimes done in bench trials, okay, it does suggest that this judge is at least open to a compromise situation which changes the stakes dramatically. brian, let's bring you into this. if there are apportionments on the table that's a very dicey proposition for at&t. let's be honest, the government is in this to make a point about an all or nothing notion about this deal. a portionment, so even if this decision comes and we now know from hadas's suggestion, that judicial decisions don't follow the college application process, which is where you get a thin

letter, you're in bad shape, a fat letter you're in good shape. a fat decision could go either way, but what does that mean that he said give me some pnts so that i might make a deal here? >> he's looking for some remedy, some conditions, conditions of something we hear a lot about in the nbc comcast deal almost a decade ago. a lot of conditions attached to that deal. there were lots of rules. comcast had to play around or play with and actually those rules are about to expire. that's normally how these deals go. that is not what the trump doj wanted to do. they want this had all or nothing situation. so it sounded like the judge, at least wants to think about the possibilities of some sort of in between, compromise as you said. the issue here is that -- we should also point out as of last week the doj and trust chief said he's still open for a settlement conference. his phone was open for that

call. so far the doj or at&t did not get very far in those conversations. >> and they're also banking that if the doj puts forward as hadas suggests, selling off the turner networks including cnn, will that motivate the judge's understanding of some kind of animus or motivation or intentionality in their pursuing this in the first place. >> a fat decision gets to the concern about political motivation. there's been concern for months that the trump administration was somehow trying to meddle in this deal, trying to punish cnn giving the president's disdain for this network. a fat decision by the judge making very clear where his argument's are will give them legitimacy. >> alisyn? we now know the questions that special counsel robert mueller wants to ask the president. what do these mean? we get the bottom line next. first, former nba star chris herring rebounded from drug addiction in a very unlikely way. now he is helping others beat

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a lot on his plate. he has trade, the iran deal, he has of course immigration, he has north korea, i could go on. so, do we know if the president is able to focus on this and miss the chaos of some of the other stuff? >> we know how consumed he has with the russia stuff, but we also looked yesterday we saw him talked about all those foreign major issues you went through. the immigration stuff, what's going on at the border, the delegation of china on trade, whether or not he meets with kim jong-un in the dmz and four major issues dominant in this era and one of the last 16 hours tell us, they tell us what the trump presidency is about, because even though those issues are out there, we hear the palace intrigue stories of the chf-oftaff calling him an idiot and unhinged and these questions that robert mueller's team wants to ask him once again shows this is the danger for a

president when you are under investigation, it subassumes -- it takes over everything else even major issues like the ones you ticked through. >> help me understand this, mr. bottom line, how is it that the president of the united states who has access to the best intel available, listens to benjamin netanyahu give that speech and says i was 100%, right, iran is still up to it, this deal has to go, when his secretary of defense mattis says, yeah, this is what was going on when the deal was put together and all of the allies kind of yawn and say, we knew this already and the iaea comes out and says, we saw a lot of this stuff that israel is showing off now already. how is it that the president of the united states seems to jump at a conclusion that all of the intelligence people around him don't share? >> that's not a new pattern of behavior for the president. he's more pushing a p.r. issue with this. he's trying to set the stage for

what he may eventually do and pull out. he was completing the two step that netanyahu was trying to dance with him yesterday and sort of lay the public argument ground work, you're obviously, chris, totally right to point out that nakts much of this was known. there wasn't new information here but that's never going to stop donald trump from touting that it justifies his case. >> we have a graphic of at least 40 of the questions that robert mueller's team would ask the president. i mean, this comes from the leaked list of questions that "the new york times" obtained. they seem to be notes perhaps that president trump's legal team took after talking to robert mueller's investigators, so what's your thinking on why this is happening and what the upshot is? >> again, now i'm just speculating here, but reading between the lines you're right to note as "the new york times" reported, so this was a readout to the trump legal team and yet, "the new york times" obtained it

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