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New Russian General in Ukraine as 8-Mile Convoy Spotted; Urgent Search for Suspects After Triple Killing and Gun Thefts; Family Divided by War Celebrates Girl's Birthday Virtually; President Shifts Focus to Domestic Issues; World's Number One Scottie Scheffler Wins 2022 Masters; "SNL" Mocks Will Smith's Oscar Drama Again. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired April 10, 2022 - 20:00   ET

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REP. LIZ CHENEY (R-WY): I think this is clearly is genocide.

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new commander to oversee his country's entire military.

JAKE SULLIVAN, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: This general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians. Ukraine will never be subjugated to Russia. It doesn't matter which general President Putin tries to appoint.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Ukrainians are evacuating and bracing for an onslaught that government officials believe is on the horizon.

COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Trucks moving with self- propelled grenade launchers, artillery pieces. They're going down into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. They're going to try to take the east.

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: As many as 4,000 people were here at the Kramatorsk railway station waiting to be evacuated when there was a large blast overhead that rained down thousands of pieces of shrapnel.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Russia is not just waging an unprovoked war on Ukrainian territory. What they are doing is genocide.

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Pamela Brown in Washington, you are live in the CNN NEWSROOM on this Sunday. Well, despite billions of dollars in military aid from the U.S. and Western allies, Ukraine's president says he is not sure it will be enough for his country to survive.

In a grim and blunt assessment, Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to CBS News as Russia appears to be massing forces for a major offensive in the eastern part of his country. New satellite images show a military convoy eight miles long is now just east of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city. As you know, Zelenskyy has been requesting warplanes, a demand the U.S. is not willing to meet. Here's what we heard from him minutes ago.

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SCOTT PELLEY, CBS "60 MINUTES" HOST: What are you expecting now in the east and the south?

PRES. VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINE (through translator): We think this will be a new wave of this war. We don't know how much Russian weaponry there will be, but we understand there will be many times more than there is now. All depends on how fast we will be helped by the United States. To be honest, whether we will be able to survive depends on this.

I have 100 percent confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but unfortunately, I don't have the confidence that we will be receiving everything we need.

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BROWN: Meanwhile, the death toll rises from Russia's barbaric attack on a civilian train station on Friday. We want to warn you that the images you are about to see are graphic and disturbing. At least 57 people have now died from the attack, more than 100 were injured. Most of those casualties, families, desperate to evacuate before Russia's expected assault on the Donbas region.

Well, today, the White House is warning that the newly named Russian commander taking over the mission in Ukraine has a history of atrocities and that Ukrainians should brace for that brutality to continue.

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SULLIVAN: This particular general has a resume that includes a brutality against civilians in other theaters in Syria and we can expect more of the same in this theater.

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BROWN: The promotion of the Russian general and his brutal reputation earned in Syria has sent chills through many Ukrainians.

CNN's Nima Elbagir is in Kyiv.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Pamela, we all remember those images of men, women and children screaming, running for cover, the devastated buildings, cities, and towns across Syria, and now the man responsible for that carnage, General Aleksandr Dvornikov, has been tasked by President Vladimir Putin with turning the tide here in Ukraine, and that tells us a number of things.

It tells us that President Putin has an eye to disinformation both at home and abroad in Russia. This is the man that is perceived with delivering a victory for Russian forces in support of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, but this is also the man that was successful in a career of impunity.

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He successfully was able to get away with killing, according to Syrian Human Rights Organizations, over 5,600 men, women and children in Syria. And that is an incredibly chilling message for those here on the ground. But the terrain here is a little different. The Ukrainian forces have already been very successful in pushing back the Russian offensive here in Kyiv, and in its surroundings.

Also, the support that the Ukrainian forces are receiving has been very different. They have already received significant antiaircraft capabilities, both from the U.S. and from other allies and General Dvornikov was heavily reliant on their superior air force capacity to bring Syrian forces to their knees in the campaign in Syria. Whatever the message that President Putin is seeking to send, it is believed that he is seeking to send it ahead of a May 9th, self-appointed deadline in the hope of, again, with one eye to propaganda and disinformation, tying it to Russia's successes against Nazi Germany on May 9th and delivering a victory parade in Russia's Red Square.

It's going to be a very scary time as the offensive in the east of the country continues to escalate. And the Ukrainians are continuing to ask their friends, their supporters around the world for help and they need it now more than ever, Pamela.

BROWN: All right, thanks, Nima, we appreciate it.

Let's bring in CNN military analyst Wesley Clark, a retired army general and former NATO Supreme Allied commander.

Hi, General. So the White House is warning that the newly named Russian commander taking over this mission in Ukraine has a history of atrocities. Knowing what we know about his past behavior, what do you expect to see in the weeks ahead?

GEN. WESLEY CLARK (RET.), FORMER NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER: Well, I suspect to see massive artillery bombardments. I expect to see a major tank offensive in the east. I expect to see civilians murdered and gone through the list that -- the Russians have and I expect to see Putin trying to seize all of Donbas and then call for a cease-fire or something so it can reconstitute its forces and finish the job.

And Pamela, I am so worried that we're not going to get the reinforcement, the extra equipment there that President Zelenskyy is asking for. I've been on this issue for weeks. I've talked to people throughout the world on this, and there's just fumbling and just bumbling around, all paperwork. Well, we're thinking about, well, we're modulating it.

Look, I hope that the United States of America understands that these Ukrainians are fighting our battle for democracy. Putin considers us the main enemy. We're, Ukraine is like the junior test case. If he loses in Ukraine, then war is less likely with Russia. If he wins in Ukraine, war is very likely with NATO.

And so, we've got to get that equipment there. I'm just looking at those pictures you showed. I saw pictures of M1 tanks. There are not M1 tanks going to the Ukraine. Zero. Zero. We've not provided a single tank. We're still arguing with our allies to get them to provide tanks. They need to provide hundreds of artillery pieces to Ukraine, 100,000 rounds of ammunition. That stuff is not in there yet. The Javelins, the Stingers, that was fine for the battles that were defensive around Kyiv. If we're going to succeed in this conflict we have to give them the tools they need and they don't have them yet.

BROWN: So it sounds like what you're saying is the U.S. is not meeting the moment with a sense of urgency and providing these weapons.

CLARK: I don't know what the problem is. I still think that -- I still read op-eds in newspapers saying, well, maybe we can negotiate with Putin. Well just stop the killing. Look, you're dealing with somebody who is not a Western politician. He's not interested in stopping the killing. He's causing the killing. He wants more of it and any negotiation you have with him will be dependent on the outcome of the battles on the ground.

And unless he loses in Ukraine, all you're doing is giving him an operational pause in which he can rebuild his military and then find some other pretext to launch forward in the future, either against Ukraine or against the Baltics or in some other theater. So we can't kid ourselves on this, Pamela. This is extremely serious.

This is the most serious crisis facing the United States in my lifetime, and I fought Vietnam and I was there for the Cuban missile crisis as a West Point cadet. This is more serious. This man Putin wants the Soviet Union back. He is willing to fight for it and our diplomats have to understand this.

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This is not something we're going to negotiate away and make everybody kiss and make up. Got to answer him with the language he understands and that is giving Ukraine the means to defend itself and regain its territory.

BROWN: Yes, I'm curious just in light of everything you said, what you think about these new satellite images, that we can hopefully put up on the screen here, this eight-mile-long Russian convoy near Kharkiv. And, you know, people would look at this and say, gosh, they're just kind of sitting ducks right there. Why isn't the Ukrainians, why aren't they targeting this convoy? I mean it reminds you of what we saw outside of Kyiv weeks ago.

So do you think -- what do you think make of that? And do you think it's because they don't have what they need to execute that?

CLARK: I do think it's -- they don't have the means to really go after that convoy. A, they don't have the real-time intelligence. B, they don't have the aircraft that are required. The drones can pick off a tank now and then but you have to go after this with combined arms. This convoy is not moving without protection. It has air defense protection so you have to have a sophisticated set of weaponry and good planning and coordination to do a combined arms attack on the convoy.

And Pamela, you can be sure this is just one of many that we're looking at. This is the Russian force coming in and I know, I hear a lot being made about how bad the Russian soldiers are and morale is terrible, blah, blah, blah. Look, it was bad at the start of the Second World War for Stalin, too, and he fixed it just by brute force. Just kill enough people, change enough generals, put enough artillery fire in the air, with the KGB machine guns at their back, eventually you're going to have people go in and fight because they have no choice.

And Putin is following Stalin's playbook, so we can't kid ourselves on this. We do not -- we have not yet given Ukraine what it needs to defend itself and the time is running short. We must push our allies to get those T-72s, 152-millimeter SPs, and we got to get them some aircrafts, some Sukhoi, and some MiGs. They can fly them. Let them fly them. What's the difference?

BROWN: Well, I can certainly hear your frustration in your voice on this issue, so I appreciate you coming on to share your perspective on all of this. Always good to have you on the show, General Wesley Clark, thank you.

CLARK: Thank you, Pamela.

BROWN: There is an urgent hunt for suspects in Georgia tonight two days after someone shot and killed a gun range owner, his wife and their grandson. Authorities say dozens of weapons were also stolen.

CNN's Nadia Romero joins me now from Atlanta. So what are we learning, Nadia?

NADIA ROMERO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Pamela, just think of how devastating this must have been for the county coroner who showed up at the crime scene only to find his three family members who were killed, his parents Tommy and Evelyn Hawk, and his 19-year-old son Luke Hawk were killed, and then to find out that 40 firearms were also stolen.

Now the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the ATF investigating. ATF telling us this is their top priority. Now while all of that is happening here in Georgia, we expect the Governor Bryan Kemp to sign a new bill into law that will allow people to carry concealed guns into public places without a permit.

Now there will be some regulations like if you're going into an airport or a government building or if you're a convicted felon, but most experts say this is about the state of Georgia loosening gun restrictions, but we expect to hear President Joe Biden tomorrow talk about strengthening federal regulations on certain guns. So we're seeing a completely different approach, Pamela, and we have seen quite a few shootings happen all across this country, and in large cities like Washington, D.C. and in small, more rural cities like Cedar Rapids, Iowa -- Pamela.

BROWN: All right. Nadia, live for us from Atlanta, thank you.

And still ahead on this Sunday, President Biden is set to hit the road this week pitching his economic action plan to voters ahead of the midterms. Meantime, Scotty Sheffler wins the 2022 Masters and the first major of his career. We are live in Augusta. And "SNL" pokes more fun at that infamous Oscars moment as Jada Pinkett Smith speaks up publicly for the first time since the slap heard around the world.

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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COLIN JOST, ACTOR, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": I think honestly I think a real punishment would be to make Will Smith host next year's Oscars.

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BROWN: Now, in the seventh week of Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine, the world has seen horrific cruelties. But behind closed doors, families strive for normalcy even when loved ones have to celebrate a little girl's birthday from different countries.

CNN's Rafael Romo has their story.

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ROMO (on-camera): Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected just about every aspect of life here in Ukraine even something as simple and ordinary as a birthday, but a father was determined to make sure his daughter had a bright and joyful celebration for her 10th birthday even if they're not together.

(Voice-over): The cake is ready and most of the family has arrived. And what's a birthday party without birthday hats?

(On-camera): Happy birthday.

(Voice-over): Grandpa and Grandma get their hats, too. And it's time to light the candles. But there is something missing or rather someone. The birthday girl herself. Is that why her father seems pensive, sad, perhaps?

Arena Pelenskyy, a girl from the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, turns 10 today.

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But she is far, far away, 1500 kilometers away. Technology allows for long-distance birthday wishes. We congratulate you on your birthday, Arena's grandmother tells her on

the phone. We wish you happiness and health. And although we are not together, our hearts are with you.

The story about how this family is celebrating a long-distance birthday is a story of thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian families, whose lives have been upended by a Russian invasion.

(On-camera): How would you describe the experience of having witnessed the bombing?

YURIY PELENSKYY, LVIV RESIDENT: It was scary.

ROMO (voice-over): Yuriy Pelenskyy is Arena's father.

(On-camera): You told me that you could actually hear the bomb coming here?

PELENSKYY: Yes. Yes.

ROMO (voice-over): He says he wanted to keep his family together in their home but when bombs flew right above his apartment building and exploded at a military base a few kilometers away, he knew it was time to say goodbye.

PELENSKYY: It's horror. It's like a horror film. It's like a bad dream. And you wake up in the morning you understand that it is not like bad dream.

ROMO: The following day he drove his daughter, wife Marta, and mother Lecia to Krakow, Poland. There they took a flight to Milan, Italy, where they are currently staying with family, far away from any airstrikes.

(On-camera): How do you explain to a 10-year-old girl that the only country she has ever known is at war and that bombs are falling?

PELENSKYY: We explained that it's Russia come to our country and bad things are happening now, people die, and it is very dangerous.

ROMO (voice-over): When the family finishes singing "Happy Birthday," there is not a dry eye in the room. Everybody gives the birthday girl a virtual kiss. And moments later, they all have to run to the underground shelter after the air raid siren goes off once again.

(On-camera): What is your hope for the future?

PELENSKYY: My hope for the future that everything will be OK. I know that everything will be OK. We will win the war.

ROMO: And when Ukraine wins the war, Pelenskyy says, he will be able to be reunited with his family. Arena's eighth and ninth birthday parties were canceled because of COVID-19. Her father hopes the whole family will be able to celebrate her 11th birthday next year together in a country at peace, where children are no longer afraid of falling bombs. Rafael Romo, CNN, Lviv, Ukraine.

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BROWN: What a story that is. Well, President Joe Biden is working to turn on the charm. A look at this efforts to get voters back on his side ahead of this year's midterm election.

CNN's senior political analyst Ryan Lizza joins me just ahead.

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BROWN: Politicians use social media all the time to promote their appearances, speeches, or events. Well, at first glance, this looks like a normal advertisement on Instagram from Arizona Republican Congressman Paul Gosar. It's with the American Populist Union, an organization the Anti-Defamation League has called white supremacists. But after public criticism, the Gosar campaign claims that he never intended to speak at the event. But the "Arizona Republic" reported he was promoting it on social media.

For the record, this is not the first run-in the congressman has had with white supremacist groups. For example last year, he took a trip with a small group of volunteers to southern Arizona to clean up trash. It looks like a group of normal everyday citizens just trying to do the right thing, but alongside him are a blogger who praised Nazi Germany, a congressional candidate who called for the execution of election officials, and a speaker removed from the 2020 RNC who shared an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

In 2017, Gosar falsely suggested that the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally that let one person dead and dozens injured was actually a false flag operation by the left.

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ELLE REEVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In fairness, Antifa's in the news because of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

REP. PAUL GOSAR (R-AZ): Look, isn't that interesting that maybe that was created by the left?

REEVE: Do you think George Soros funded the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville?

GOSAR: Wouldn't it be interesting to find out?

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BROWN: In 2019, Gosar dined with Filip DeWinter. He is a far-right Belgium politician who once said Islam doesn't belong in Europe. Gosar's spokesperson has previously declined to comment on specific questions about the congressman's associates. There seems to be no accountability from party leadership. Here's what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said last month after Gosar and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a conference organized by a white nationalist.

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REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA): There is no place for that. There's no place for what has gone on with that organization by far and there never will be in this party and it will never be tolerated.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And obviously Greene and Gosar already (INAUDIBLE), that you said in November that you return and news that they might even get better with committee assignments. Do you stand by that still?

MCCARTHY: They have ability to be able to get committees based upon that time when it comes.

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BROWN: So to be clear, his speech prerecorded and his team's claims that it was sent by mistake.

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Gosar told Politico a staffer, quote, "misconstrued directions and the tape was meant for another group." But McCarthy said last month that committees are still on the table for Gosar despite currently being stripped of all assignments and his further association with hateful groups.

When there is a repeated pattern over years, how much longer can GOP leadership continue to turn a blind eye?

President Biden's public schedule has been consumed over the past month by Russia's invasion of Ukraine but now he is pivoting back toward his domestic agenda.

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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: With this change, it's estimated that 200,000 presently uninsured Americans are going to gain coverage. Workers who join a union gain power, the power over decisions that affect their lives. We're going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in American history.

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BROWN: CNN's senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns joins me now live from the White House.

So, Joe, events overseas still very much pressing, right? Is the White House concerned there's a perception that domestic issues have been on the back burner and so that is why it needs to pivot?

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: There is a perception that politically they have a lot of selling to do and it is a midterm and that is part of the reason why the White House has announced that the president is flying out to Iowa on Tuesday, going to Menlo, Iowa, which is right outside Des Moines. This will be the president's first trip to Iowa since just days before the 2020 election.

We're told he's going to talk about his economic agenda at large as well as that infrastructure initiative he signed into law in November. Now what is very clear at the White House and elsewhere is that they have so much work to do simply because if you look back at the president's performance record over the past couple years, it hasn't been that good. The president lost the midterm election by eight points, he also lost in the caucuses coming in fourth in the Iowa caucuses.

And if you look at the polling that's come out of some of the newspapers there in Iowa, it indicates that the president is running right about in the mid-30s so a lot for them to do. Of course, that infrastructure initiative apparently includes things like roads, bridges, broadband and so on, so these are things you can sell to the public out in Iowa, the question of course is whether that's going to translate into votes -- Pamela.

BROWN: That is the question, Joe Johns, thank you so much.

And now let's bring in CNN political commentator and chief Washington correspondent for Politico, Ryan Lizza.

Hey, Ryan. So look at the polling. I mean, we're all -- all of us who are reporters in Washington that are covering this are looking at this polling showing the economy being the number one issue among voters. But take a look at how badly the president's numbers have slid on this issue. He's dropped 20 points in just over a year. How much trouble does that mean for his party come November?

RYAN LIZZA, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: A lot. I mean midterm elections, the first midterm for a president is almost always bad for the president, it almost always -- the party out of power in the White House almost always picks up seats. So that's the -- you start with that headwind. There's almost just always a penalty. And now you add to that this inflation that most Americans really have never experienced.

The majority of the population has never dealt with inflation. And this is very serious inflation and it's overwhelming all of the other good economic news out there. The very low unemployment rates, good growth rates, all the things that Biden wants to talk about, you know, some wage increases. You know, that's all being overshadowed because of this increase in prices that most Americans haven't experienced and are feeling every single day.

And of course it's wiping out a lot of the wage gains that they've experienced, and we're getting to a point here over the summer where you really get to a point where it's almost too late for a president to change the dynamic, the sort of general mood of the electorate, kind of gets baked in by the end of the summer. And there's a chance that the next few inflation releases, if they're released on a monthly basis, we could still see that number ticking up. The White House has been saying for months that, you know, they think

it would probably peak and start coming down. That hasn't happened yet.

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BROWN: Yes, it certainly hasn't. And also, in less than a month, Biden is expected to roll back a pandemic immigration policy that's called Title 42 and that allows law enforcement to stop migrants at the border. The "New York Times" is reporting that this is causing a lot of stress within the White House and Republicans are already seizing on this issue as we have seen. Is the president about to cause himself even more political pain here with this?

LIZZA: This is a really difficult and fraught issue for Democrats. The White House has been debating this since the start of the administration when a lot of progressives wanted this Title 42 lifted, rescinded, because it has basically shut down the asylum system at the border. But what's going to happen when it's lifted and it's due to be lifted now in late May, there's going to be a surge of migrants at the border. There's no doubt about that.

When the asylum system opens up, there's just going to be a massive surge. All of these migrants from Latin America and elsewhere who haven't been able to take advantage of the legal protections of our asylum system and what a lot of even Democrats are saying is that they don't think the administration and the Department of Homeland Security has a plan in place to deal with that.

And so the most vulnerable Democrats, especially on the Senate side in Arizona, in Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia, this group of Democrats who are in tough races, they have all come out in one way or another against this policy or at least against it until there's a plan that they like to deal with the coming surge. And again, just like inflation, it's a very difficult issue for Democrats and one Republicans are taking advantage of.

BROWN: I want to get your thoughts very quickly on President Trump's endorsement of Dr. Oz in a very tight Senate race in Pennsylvania.

LIZZA: You know, look, I think it's very interesting race because the two main candidates in the Republican primary are both being advised by lots of former Trump officials and so, you know, Oz, looks like Trump decided that because he was a TV guy that he would have a better shot. His opponent, his main opponent in the race, McCormick has been doing a lot better in recent polls and this is going to be a big deal.

Most of the time, in Republican primaries, Trump's endorsement matters and I think, you know, this has been a neck and neck race between Oz and McCormick, and we'll see if this is the sort of bump that he needs to pull this off.

BROWN: Right.

LIZZA: I think a lot of Republican strategists have not been that impressed with Oz as a candidate compared to McCormick, though. BROWN: Yes, I think a lot of us are going to be watching this race and

also to see if Trump goes after McCormick because one Republican I was just speaking to recently was saying Trump's sway is more in the negative influence he has than endorsements. That was this Republican's view. So we'll be really interesting to see how that plays out.

LIZZA: Good point.

BROWN: Ryan Lizza, thank you so much.

LIZZA: Good to see you, Pam. See you soon.

BROWN: You too.

Well, there is a new champion at the Masters. Up next, Scottie Scheffler dons the famous green jacket. But first there was no one like Anthony Bourdain. Tonight, the story you haven't heard from the people who knew him best. "ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN," premieres on CNN at the top of the hour and here's a preview.

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ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CHEF AND TV HOST: My life. It's a gift, a dream, a curse. I shall explain. I got very lucky. One minute I was standing next to a deep fryer, and the next, everything in my life changed. I was unqualified for the job. I was in deep waters and fast flowing ones at that. The currents could change at any time without warning.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was definitely searching for something and it was kind of agony for him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was such a romantic about life, about families, and reality was never going to live up to exactly how he pictured it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it was about Tony learning how to be a better person.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have a good karma.

BOURDAIN: How is this food-related? How the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) do I know?

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BROWN: All right, let's talk about the Masters now where the final round wrapped up this evening. CNN's Dianne Gallagher is in Augusta, Georgia.

So we have a first-time winner donning that green jacket this evening, Dianne. DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Pamela,

25-year-old Scottie Scheffler winning his first major today. The Texan really had an electric Saturday and he only had to play clean today. He had such a great lead and really just dazzled everyone here in Augusta.

Now, look, when the world number one slipped on that green jacket today he was just a few months old when the other big story here this week, Tiger Woods, won his first Masters 25 years ago this weekend.

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Now Tiger Woods nowhere near the top of the leaderboard. He finished 47th but he congratulated Scheffler in a tweet and also acknowledged this comeback that he has made, saying I didn't play my best out there but just to have the support and appreciation from all the fans, I don't think words can describe that.

The fans have been showing out for Tiger since he has returned to competitive golf for the first time in 500 days. That terrible car accident 14 months ago that shattered his leg. You watched him struggle on these 72 holes, walking, sometimes even using his club as a crutch on some of the more difficult hills but he got standing ovations every day, looked like a Sunday at the Masters since Woods said that he was going to play.

He reflected, noting that he didn't win, something he wanted to do, but acknowledging the accomplishment of actually making the cut and coming back to golf from where he's been.

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TIGER WOODS, FIVE-TIME MASTERS CHAMPION: It's been a tough road and, you know, one that I'm very thankful to have had an opportunity to be able to grind through it. A lot of different things could have happened. But 14 months, I'm able to tee up and play the Masters.

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GALLAGHER: And talking about the grind it may continue for Woods. He said he's going to have a nice bath and then he plans to play again.

Pamela, he's talking about the open championship at St. Andrews, says you can expect to see him there.

BROWN: All right. Well, that's good news. All right, Dianne Gallagher, thank you so much.

"Saturday Night Live" took aim once more at Will Smith, skewering him just moments before his daughter performed on the show. This story's next.

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[20:51:14] BROWN: "Saturday Night Live" can't get enough of Will Smith's public downfall. The show did an "Update" last night mocking Smith's Oscars incident right before his daughter Willow Smith performed.

CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas joins me now from New York.

So, Chloe, why did "SNL" mock Will Smith again?

CHLOE MELAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: I mean, look, they did it last weekend. They had to do it this weekend because Friday afternoon was when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they were banning Smith for 10 years. Take a look at what Colin Jost did during "Weekend Update."

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JOST: As a punishment for slapping Chris Rock, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years. But is that a punishment?

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JOST: He can still be nominated and even win an award. He can even go to the after-party. He just doesn't have to attend the four-hour ceremony where someone is definitely going to make fun of his wife again. I think, honestly, I think a real punishment would be to make Will Smith host next year's Oscars. Because trust me, nothing will make you question your choices in life more than hosting an award show.

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MELAS: He's talking about the time that he and Michael Che hosted the primetime Emmy Awards and he showed that photo there. The timing is ironic, Will and Jada's daughter Willow taking the stage with Camila Cabello to perform their song "Pyschofreak" off Camila's album, odd that her dad is being made fun and so publicly and then she takes the stage. She made no mention of this.

Jada Pinkett Smith making her first public appearance since the Oscars. She was with Shonda Rhimes and Debbie Allen in Los Angeles on Saturday to celebrate the grand opening of the Rhines Performance Arts Center and there's a dance studio named after Jada Pinkett Smith's family. Will Smith was not there. We haven't seen him. He hasn't said anything other than his one-sentence statement, Pamela, saying that he accepts the Academy's decision.

And I know that so many people are waiting to hear more from Will and finally get that sit-down interview at some point from Chris Rock to find out how he really feels about what happened.

BROWN: Yes. Come on, Chloe, you need to be getting that interview. All right.

MELAS: We should have him come here.

BROWN: Yes, we should.

MELAS: We should have him come here to like, Pamela table talk, right? So we should have them both come and hash it out here with us, together.

BROWN: I completely agree. Great minds think alike, Chloe, thank you so much. Great to have you on as always, and we'll be right back.

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BROWN: Chef, writer, traveler, friend, Anthony Bourdain played a special role in millions of people's lives around the world from loved ones to strangers. And now, as CNN prepares to bring you the new film, "ROADRUNNER: A Film About Anthony Bourdain," Tony's closest friends and family share favorite memories of the cultural icon.

Here is Tony's brother, Christopher.

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CHRISTOPHER BOURDAIN, ANTHONY BOURDAIN'S BROTHER: I'd say the first time I went with him on one of his shows I think it was his third show he ever did, which was in 2001, and I went to France with him and so we got to hit some of the old memory places from there, that was "A Cook's Tour," his first series, and it was completely new to him. He still didn't quite know how to behave on camera.

I was tagging along on kind of a lark and he ended up roping me in, and, you know, it was just a very fun and very new experience. But I would say by the time we got around to Uruguay, which was for "No Reservations" he had nailed it down. I would say that my memory of the Uruguay trip was fantastic. That was -- I had the time of my life. That was just great. And I spent a lot of time with Tony on that trip as well just riding around in the van with him and the crew and so on.

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