distraction from the real issues at hand. >> -- could have a lot to tell us about russian intentions, russian engagement, how russian active measures work. >> intelligence report show russian hackers talking about ways to find secretary clinton's e-mails, and to get them to general flynn. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >>> good morning. welcome to your "new day." it's friday, june 30t 8:00, alisyn camerota is off, clarissa ward is joining me. washington doesn't seem to agree on much these days but we got close to unity on the outrage for president trump's latest disparaging tweets about yet another female tv host. there is a big feeling that they are beneath the dignity of the office of president of the united states. >> still, the white house is defending the tweets as it responds to being attacked mercilessly saying the president is just fighting fire with fire. we have it all covered but let's start out with cnn's boris sanchez, live at the white house. boris what are we hearing this morning? >> reporter: hey, good morning, clarissa. the pres

election. cnn's phil mattingly is live on capitol hill with the details. phil, walk us through this. >> the story which cnn hasn't corroborated yet, done by the "wall street journal" details how a republican opposition researcher, peter smith, believed that hillary clinton's e-mails had been stolen from her private server and had been reaching out to hackers and hacking groups in an effort to try to get those e-mails. according to the "wall street journal," some of the individuals he reached out to said he claimed he was working with or corroborating with michael flynn, then a senior foreign policy adviser to candidate donald trump who eventually became the national security to president donald trump before he was fired. the individual himself, peter smith, is now dead. he did interview with the "wall street journal" before his passing. he said that never actually occurred. he never said that occurred. michael flynn never returned call for comment from the "wall street journal." again, cnn hasn't corroborated these details yet. it's an interesting story, certainly something you look at the

of those wage hikes. >> far from over in that debate. >> thanks for joining us this friday morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" starts now. have a great weekend. we'll see you next week. >>> i'm appalled. this is the president of the united states. >> when he gets attacked, he's going to hit back. >> he has a role to play in uniting the country, and he threw some gasoline on the embers. >> to refer to a female's face as someone that's involved in politics is just not approved. >> a huge distraction from the real issues at hand. >> could have a lot to tell us about russian intentions, russian engagement, how russian active measures work. >> intelligence reports show russian hackers talking about ways to find secretary clinton's emails and get them to general flynn. >>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and allisisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it's friday, june 30th, 6:00 here in new york. clarissa ward has been with me this week. you've been great. thanks for being with me. >> thanks for

president of the united states. that's why he can attack us personally if he wants. he's certainly done it in my case. he's never going to get it in return. he's the president. the respect is there. a lot of this is just a waste of his time. gentlemen, thank you very much for talking to us about this. to all of you, our international viewers, thank you for watching. for you cnn num num is next. for our u.s. viewers, the revised travel ban, the court has spoken. it can go into effect in part. it will do so tonight. what does that mean? let's get after it. >> we must put in place new measures to make it harder for terrorists to succeed. >> president trump's revised travel ban is going to take effect tonight. >> we're a country that open arms to refugees and we're turning away from that. >> we have an election coming up in 18 months. we'll be back with this with a vengeance. >> if this president won't acknowledge what happened in his own election, what hope do we have he'll speak out when they do this again. >> the more pressure we put on north korea, the better. >> the president has

? joining us now, "washington post" reporter ka reason demerger, senior counterterrorism analyst phillip mud and senior analyst danny saf val low. >> there's been constant speculation the president, the executive would be on strong feel footing when it comes to identifying threats to national security and making propositions to immigration procedures because of that. so legally, he can do this, but the right way to do it, i can't find bona fide relationship as a legal standard in other case reckonings from the checklist. there used to be specific exemptions, the fiancee exception was in the immigration law. what counts, what doesn't count? >> this is exactly justice thomas's concern, as we move forward, in this short time the ban will be in effect before the supreme court can ultimately hear the case, what is a bona fide relationship? it's going to invite litigation. if you don't give a good definition in the supreme court's opinion, then it leaves the litigants to figure out what it means. the courts will before just as busy in the coming months fleshing out what exactly that means beca

it is. >> i hope that outlets that have continued to use either unnamed sources, sometimes stories with no sources at all, we've been going on this russia-trump hoax for the better part of a year now with no evidence of anything. things like the success at the v.a. barely get covered. they may get covered for an hour at a time but this story gets covered day in day out. i think america is frankly looking for something better. >> come on, you're impugning everybody right here right now with those words. this administration has done that as well. why in the name of heavens any one of us replaceable, if we don't get it right the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us. if you had been elected to serve for four years, there's no options other than that. we're here to provide you questions and you're here to provide answers. what you just did is inflammatory for people to say, the president is right and everybody out here is fake media. everybody in this room is only trying to do their job. >> i disagree completely. i think if anything has been inflamed, it's the

times" that maggie haberman who was on earlier with us had a part in, about the meeting with republican senators and how it went. the allegation that he is light on details comes from a republican senator. now, not a named republican senator which i guess would qualify as fake news in donald trump's mind, not mine. that's not from the news media. that's from a republican senator. second, donald trump has said as much repeatedly, that he's the big picture guy. he's not the in-the-weeds guy. look at his career outside of politics. he's the face, he's the face of the brand. he doesn't do the intricacies of the deals. he comes in at the end, closes them, shakes hands and goes on tv and talks about them. this is not inconsistent with who he's been his whole life. >> the closer picture remains to be seen. a.b., chris, david, thank you. >>> you're going to get more depth of perspective of what the president means in this process because we have these people on, on your screen right now. they represent the full spectrum of political belief. you've got republicans against the health care bill, s

weapons were to be used. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." it is tuesday, june 27th. 8:00 in the east. alisyn is off. news machine brianna keilar is by my side. >> you like that nickname? >> kind of do. >> it will stick. the senate republican health care bill is on the brink of defeat? why? a growing number of gop senators opposing a plan after a devastating cbo report and are concerned it's been pushed through too quickly and as a result the republicans don't seem to have the votes to even get to a debate. where will they go from here? >> meantime, the white house says syria is preparing another chemical attack. it's issuing a warning to the assad regime that they will pay a heavy price if they do it again. how is the president going to respond? we have all of this covered. i want to begin with cnn's suzanne malveaux on the health care showdown. >> reporter: good morning, brianna. as it stands, the senate health care bill is on the verge of collapse, they do not have the votes to even bring this forward fo

telling us that look, he is still pushing forward to the friday vote, this week's vote, but after that lunch, he could reassess. brianna, chris? >> suzanne, as you keep saying ten and it bears saying this is not just about politics, it's about people. we have chris cillizza, abbi fill up and jackie kusinich. jackie, why do we say it's just people? look at susan collins in maine, she's a real republican but also a real issue, one in every five people in her state many in rural areas on medicaid, two out of three kids who need this kind of help, the disabled, elderly, a lot in convalescent centers, all of those funding streams are in this bucket of money we're talking about. that's driving even gop resistance. >> and to your point, i looked at the headlines of several papers of these moderate members and susan collins, older rural mainers would be hit hard by senate bill. to your point they're seeing this on the front page of their papers this morning, talking about this cbo score, and the people that are going to lose health care under this bill in the next ten years, so when rob p

? >> well, so the first problem will tell us a lot about how the second problem gets addressed. the first problem is, this was always going to be a very difficult vote for mitch mcconnell to get across the line. they have 52 senators, and you're seeing the problem of a sort of widely varying ideological caucus. you have susan collins, lisa murkowski, shelly of west virginia, rob portman of ohio centrist coverage end, focused on the cbo report, 22 million less people who get insurance. on the other hand, rand paul, mike lee, ted cruz, who don't think the bill goes far enough. those faction also always exist. mcconnell is aware of that. i don't know that changes on july 11th, 18th or 25th, any more than july 4th. if mcconnell says the votes are not going to be there, we need another plan, that's when it gets to your second point, chris, is what do they do then? because there are going to be premium spikes. there are going to be things they have to address, and there's a lot of political fallout. if republicans can't do the thing they spent seven years insisting would be the first thin

of colluding with the dnc to beat bernie sanders. suzanne malveaux is live for us on capitol hill. suzanne? >> reporter: president trump throwing his support behind the health care legislation, despite its unclear future. what will it snb what will it tell us about how many people will potentially lose their coverage? what will be the impact to the premiums? one of the key questions, how does it compare to the house bill cbo which showed 23 million americans would lose their coverage over the course of ten years. that score potentially coming out as early as today. >> i don't think they're far off. famous last words but i think we're going to get there. >> reporter: president trump expressing confidence as senate republicans scramble to get the 50 votes needed to pass the health care bill. >> it's very complicated from the standpoint that you move it this way, this group doesn't like it. you move it over here, very narrow path. and, honestly, nobody can be totally happy. >> reporter: with all democrats opposed to the legislation. republicans can only afford to lose two votes. but

up against the concept of collusion as we've heard people use it to raise concerns about what we heard with the trump campaign and associates. >> two interesting things about the last 24 hours of tweets. one is the very sophisticated way he uses the word collusion. it's not an accidental word. he's trying to do a kind of equivalency with the kinds of collusion that people are investigating in the russia case, and as sarah said, it mixes up the narratives. i think also the other thing to think about on his tweets on russia in the last day or so, is that it shows what we've always known about his tweets, which is that he renaktsz tacts in the m something he's read, something he's seen on cnn. there's no attempt to be consistent. he'll say whatever is his gut reaction and he thinks the proper thing in the moment. when "the washington post" runs its story, he says, wow, wow, i just found out about that when, in fact, as ron said, it's impossible to believe he just found out about it but when he wrote the tweet, that will make for the good political hit at that moment. that's the way

that look like in effect to people using those benefits right now? >> that's what's so hard about the way the administration is trying to spin it because cuts to the rate of growth is not -- to future spending is not a cut in the moment. but if you look at how eligibility requirements can change, what essential benefits will be covered, if you are mentally ill, if you have an opioid addiction, if that used to be provided automatically and now you're going to have to pay more for it, is it beyond reach, you look at how many ways it can be curbed. >> you know what it's shaping up as, and i don't know if it will work because the group has so little political currency. but you're winding up having a punitive poverty conversation. we have congressmen on show saying, come on, cleeler, talking about 138% of the poverty level and 120%. you're still over 100% of the poverty level. the poverty level is $24,000 for a family. how meaningful is the traction of that conversation? >> i think it's meaningful in that you see republicans selling their partial repeal and replace bill the same way democr

, thank you all for being with us. page, i want to ask you first and foremost about something ryan just said, as here is a tweet from president trump just about 11 hours ago. said just out, obama administration knew far in advance of november 8th about election meddling by russia, did nothing about it, why? the fact that the president now seems to be acknowledging that there was some sort of russian interference, did that change anything when it comes into the investigation into collusion? >> well, christi, i think it does. we now have the first element of what someone, a special council or prosecutor could prove was unlawful interference. we now have evidence and president trump agrees that they did have information that they tried to influence the election. we now know that president trump after the fact has admitted that. the only question now is will the special council find collusion. collusion is not a legal term. it's really conspiracy, aiding or abetting. and did anyone in the trump transition team do anything to assist the russians either before or after the fact? that could be

blackwell and christie paul. >> always great to you with us. new allegations directly connecting the kremlin to the russian hackings. also a health kafr bill faces an uphill battle in the senate. >> the president could be standing face to face with vladimir putin at the g 20 meeting in germany. this is a stunning report that came out yesterday and just how much he knew about russia's attempt to hack the u.s. elections. mane while more skeptical senators are weighing on the health care plan. it doesn't look like it has enough votes to pass the senate. a fifth senator has now come out against it. watch. >> i'm telling you right now i cannot support a piece of legislation that takes insurance away from tens of millions of americans. you have to protect medicaid expansion states. that's what i want. make sure that we're taken care of here in the state of nevada. >> bryan is following the latest on the russia investigation at the white house. so gom. >> reporter: good morning to you and president trump really seizing on this bomb shell washington post report as a way to lay blame on presi

probably get there. we'll have to see. this is "new day" weekend. >> always so glad to have you with us on a weekend. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. let's start with the big stories that president trump is juggling this morning. first russian hacking allegations and the vote also on his signature health care bill. that seems to be drowning in the senate. in about two weeks the president could be standing face to face at the g 20 meeting in germany. >> this is a stunning report suggesting president obama knew about moscow's attempt to hack the u.s. elections but didn't do enough to stop them. president trump quick to jump on that. listen. >> well, i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he didn't do anything about it but nobody wants to talk about that. the cia gave him information on russia a lock time before they even -- you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it's an amazing thing. to me, you know, in other words, the question is if he had the information why didn't he do something about it? he shoul

with this. >> governor steve beshear, thank you very much for giving us your take on this new health care bill. great to see you. >> you're welcome. >>> following a lot of news, including a live interview with president trump's counselor kellyanne conway. so let's get right to it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news -- >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to your chris is off this friday. david gregory is with us. busy friday. >> very busy friday. >> a baombshell report in "the washington post" that vladimir putin ordered the hacks on the u.s. election. the cia captures putin's instructions to hurt hillary clinton and try to help donald trump win. >> the "post" writes about how to punish the kremlin and what impact his potential involvement would have on the outcome of the race. joining us now one of the journalists that broke the story, "washington post" reporter adam intest. adam, welcome back. let's drill down on one of the really important aspects of this piece. definitive prove according to your reporting that russian president putin wanted to influence the election, and help

already volatile election. they didn't want to tilt the election. joining us now is "washington post" reporter who is breaking the story this morning. >> great to be here. >> tell us. >> the story is basically trying to reveal what happened behind the scenes when the obama administration was deciding what to do, what happened here is that this intelligence arrived by courier from the cia in the first week of august. it was provided to a small group of the president's top advisers and to the president himself. once they finished reading intelligence they were told to give it back to the courier so the courier could bring it back to langley. inside the package was information from such an important source that it was almost as if they were seeing directly putin's instructions on what to carry out here. >> let's talk about what i think is really the big headline here. this is an account that there was definitive proof that this was an attempt to interfere in the u.s. election directed by president putin himself. how can you report this so definitively? what gives you and the post so muc

you very much for setting that up for us. let's bring in our panel to discuss it. we have political analyst and yahoo finance columnist rick newman. great to have all of you here to help us analyze what is happening this morning. rick, what do you see in this bill and who it is a victory for? >> there are a lot of problems in the overall health care industry in the united states, rising costs. this bill does not address any of the actual problems in the health care. when you hear people saying americans need relief and better health care, this does not do anything like that. >> why not? >> first of all, obamacare only effects about eight percent of everybody who gets insurance in the united states. everybody else will feel no relief because it is not directed at them. they are targeting a relatively small portion for political reasons. this is mainly about restructuring medicaid. we will hear all the details on that. worth pointing out aarp is against this, the american medical association representing the doctors in the country thmpt american cancer society is against it. it is har

proposal. >> those seeking admission into our country should not use welfare for a period of at least five years. >> reporter: a rule that is already the law of the land. and reiterating this rather vague concern about china's influence on north korea. >> i do like president chi. i wish we would have more help with respect to north korea from china. doesn't seem to be working out. >> reporter: and touting wealthy cabinet picks before making this eyebrow raising statement. >> they love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions, i just don't want a poor person. does that make sense? >> reporter: and only briefly mentioning the russia investigations hanging over his administration. >> they have phony witchhunts going against me. >> reporter: but mr. trump is silent about russia's interference in the 2016 election, an issue the white house continues to dodge when pressed for the president's position. >> i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. >> reporter: a former homeland security secretary of state testifies today evidence of russian med-the-in

president asked us was odd, but we didn't feel pressured, we didn't feel he was telling us we had to tell the public about what was going on in the investigation. what did you make of their testimony? >> that's a great question. of course, we have now seen from several senior administration officials including the attorney general, including the director of national intelligence and a couple of others, this weird refusal to discuss the nature of their conversations with the president about whether the president tried to stop this investigation which, of course, is something that points to the question, and i do say the question of obstruction of justice. you don't get to refuse to answer a question to the united states congress unless you're claiming your fifth amendment rights or if you're claiming executive privilege. those are the two excuses by which you don't get to answer questions. >> they say the white house put them in a jam because they asked whether or not the white house wanted to exercise its immunity and they didn't hear back. >> if they didn't hear back, that means the

that people are not using the normal civic moral filter they would. >> all about draining the swamp. i think it's wrong to ville niez wealth. that's part of the american dream. but he's supposed to drain the swamp, go after wall street. >> jackie, why does rich equal swamp? when i talk to the trump panels, they like the idea that wildly successful, wealthy people will give them some of their secret sauce. >> his problem of draining the swamp has nothing to do with the checking accounts of his cabinets. it has to do with ethics waivers -- >> and rolling back dodd-frank and the same restrictions that were supposed to protect us. that's the swamp. those are the rules. that's what you said you were going to do. you did the opposite. how can you not do the opposite when you have the people advising you benefiting from a change like that. >> exactly. a lot of the policies he's talking about, look at the health care bill, the bills moving through the senate and the house, these are going to hurt lower income people at the end of the day and probably a lot of trump voters. that is the conce

. that's been out in the public demain. the senate is using that as a framework. again, within the republican conference it's been a very open process. now we're going to draft a bill and that will be made public. i want to fully vet it in the public. i want to make sure that my constituents have enough time to provide input. again, i'm not going to criticize the process unless we start taking the vote way too early -- >> that's what your leader is telling you he wants to do. >> well, you know, that will be a decision he'll make. but i've told him unless i have the input from my constituents and have the information i need to justify a yes vote, i wouldn't be voting yes. >> so you think there is a good chance mcconnell will put this up for a vote if he's got guys who are good soldiers but pragmatic like you who say, i'm not going to vote for it if i can't sell it? >> i'm not going to speak for the leader whatsoever. what i will say again is these markets are collapsing. we do have to pass something to stabilize them and from my standpoint, the whole goal of our effort ought to be t

with our disagreements. >> we used to complain like hell when democrats rammed the affordable care act. now they're doing the same thing. >> i want to assure you, before this summer is over, we will repeal and replace obamacare. >> the american people have a right to know what is in this bill. >>> it's a total disgrace what happened to otto. he should have been home a long time ago. >>> i hope the president and his team get a lot tougher with china. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." alisyn is off. brooke baldwin joins me. republicans celebrating a big win in the most expensive house race in u.s. history. karen handel defeating democratic challenger jon ossoff to win the open seat in georgia's sixth congressional district. it's another deneat for the democrats, that's four in a row in these special elections since president trump was elected. >> democrats are 0 for 4 there. meantime on capitol hill senate republican leaders will take the wraps off their health care bill, unveiling a draft tomorrow after weeks of secrec

attacking forces loyal to us. what is our policy about what is clearly an iranian and syrian land grab, drafting on our military success against isis, moving eastward to control the border crossings between iraq and syria. >> strong point that fieeeds in something we're finally seeing in the senate. they're meeting about the authorization for use of military force is in a time that the president of the united states address congress and the american people and say what the plan is. general, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> all right, there's a lot of news. let's get after it. >> i feel really good, very optimistic. >> the polls are now open in georgia. >> almost like a referendum on trump. >> it is the homestretch. >> this is go time on the battle to save american health care. >> we cannot allow america's health care to continue its current downward trajectory. >> the republicans are writing their health care bill under the cover of darkness because they're ashamed of it. >> there are a lot of broken hearts for the warmbier family. >> we are not going to stand by while they

wonderful as its proponents would like us to believe, it would be out in the open. >> there's only one word for the nate republicans are doing with this bill. shameful. >> and cnn learned that one of the things to negotiating is cuts in medicaid, deeper cuts for the senate version than the house bill. that ofgs satisfying the conservatives but really alienating some of the moderates. >>> now to another important story, president trump condemning north korea after the death of american student otto warmbier after he spent 17 months in captivity. joe johns is live at the white house with more. >> reporter: this case is a mystery, a human tragedy and it only adds to the crisis that is north korea. and the administration's options may be limited because of concerns about other americans that are being imprisoned in north korea right now. meanwhile, the russia investigation continues to cause distractions for the white house. >> it's a brutal regime. and we'll be able to handle it. >> reporter: president trump under prerk sussure to take a h line against north korea amid outrage of the deat

protest to gut the health care law. suzanne mel vow is live on the hill for us. >> reporter: while many people were asleep, democrats were up, they were on the senate floor doing a protest, a talk-a-thon to try to call attention to the process that republicans are engaged in in trying to craft their own version on the senate side of repealing and replacing obamacare. and one of these things that they're asking for committee hearings, a copy of the text when that becomes available, when the bill is actually written and all senators meeting -- senator majority leader mitch mcconnell has rejected all three requests leaving them very few options other than the slow down the process and to make some noise. >> the republicans are writing their health care bill under the cover of darkness because they were ashamed of it. >> if this bill was as wonderful as the proponents would like for us to believe, it would be out in the open. >> there's only one word for what the senate republicans are doing with this bill. shame f shameful. >> reporter: they're negotiating the issue over cutting medic

little word association with them. one word they would use to describe president trump. we're following a lot of news today. president trump's attorney will join us live in a few minutes. let's get right to it. >>> good morning. welcome to your "new day," monday, june 19th, it's 8:00 am in the east. >>> at least one man is dead in london, eight others hurt. british prime minister theresa may is calling the attack a terrorist attack. >> bystanders sprang into action until help arrived. third attack in the uk in the last four months but the first to target muslims. let's begin our coverage with phil black live at the scene in london. what have you learned, phil? >> alison, good morning. witnesses say this man was responsible for carrying out the attack, who drove a white van, swerving deliberately into a crowd of people that had just emerged from a local mosque. after midnight monday morning local time, they had been attending prayers, observing the holy month of ramadan. some of those bystanders actually intervened, grabbing this guy, pulling him out of the vehicle, pinning him

. it is the third attack in which a vehicle has been used as a weapon. the local community believes they were specifically targeted in this attack. back to you. >> phil, we eem check back with you. let's bring in the panel, cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd and cnn national security analyst, peter bergen. it's good to have you both here. phil mudd, take us through the assessment of what happened here? what are you looking at? >> you look at what happened and why it happened. people are confusing the two over the past 12 hours. we know someone, evidently by his own words targeted a muslim community outside london. there's a quick translation of that to assume it is a terror attack. people on the investigator's side don't make that assumption initially. terrorism involves motive. what was he thinks? simple questions like did he have an ex-girlfriend in the area at the mosque, that leads into the discussion about whether it's terrorism. we should know that today. you've got to differentiate in the investigation immediately whether we think it was terrorism. i believe it was. and w

that can remind us of the other heinous at tangs we've seen, the westminster bridge, also a vehicle attack. of course, we remember the ariana grande concert that was so horrible. is something particular happening in london and the surrounding areas? >> obviously this is an intensity and frequency of terrorist attacks that britain has not seen in ages, and part of this is a cyclical nature of it. you have the attack and potential copycats and something that looks like it's an attack against a community viewed as responsible for the original attacks, so that's the challenge right now happening in britain. you have over 1200 mosques in great britain. you're not going to be able to protect them all. the equivalent of being attacked during ramadan is like south korea ame church. the second issue is to be able to stop the cyclical nature of these. if isis comes out and says this is the problem with diversity, what you don't want is a copycat on the isis side to say that's exactly right, let's do the next attack and then you'll have attack after attack. it's a challenge in a diverse city w

navy of the 7th fleet says the ship suffered significant damage. >> alexandra field is joining us in japan. >> reporter: they are grieving this morning for the loss of the ship mates who were on board the "uss fitzgerald" when that collision happened. it is still an inexplicable crash for different reasons and hard for people to understand how a warship on a routine operation could have collided with a container ship some three times its size. the naval community here and the family members of service men and women were holding out hope more than a day as search efforts continue to try to locate seven missing sailors. those search efforts coming to an end with the navy announcing that divers had made a discovery going down into the flooded compartments of a ship that has returned to port now. they say they discovered remains of sailors. the commander of the 7th fleet here spoke to the media today talking about what the final moments on board that ship may have been like. is there anything you can share about the circumstances that those sailors were facing in those moments down in th

for us. thank you so much for that report. >>> back in the u.s., the coast guard says all passengers are back on shore after a high speed ferry accident in massachusetts where several passengers had to be med-evac'd after sustaining injuries after hitting a jetty in hi and he is harbor. coast guard says rough seas and strong winds were a couple of factors that hindered initial rescue efforts. president trump is adding veteran washington lawyer to his defense team amid expanding russia investigation. now on board, attorney john dowd who once led investigation into pete rose betting scandal for major league baseball. >> this coming as cnn learns tensions are rising at the justice department over the russia probe. the man who named special counsel to run the investigation after attorney general jeff sessions had to recuse himself now may be forced to do the same thing. cnn jeremy diamond is live at the white house. what are you hearing about all that's going on that we learned happened at the justice department and has the white house made comment on that new information? >>

morning, everyone. i'm rene marsh in for christi paul. thanks for joining us. >> i'm victor blackwell. happy saturday to you. >>> the search for seven missing sailors continues off the coast of japan where a u.s. navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship in the early morning hours. drivers are set to inspect the "uss fitzgerald," which is now back at port in yokosuka, japan. the ship took on water after sustaining damage both above and below the waterline on its starboard side. the warship's captain, along with two other u.s. servicemen are listed in stable condition after being medevac'd to a naval hospital. >> the names of the missing are being withheld until families can be fonotified. >>> president trump is adding a high profile washington lawyer to his defense team amid the expanding russia investigation. now on board is attorney john dowd, who once led the investigation into the pete rose betting scandal for major league baseball. also cnn learning that tensions are rising at the justice department over this russia probe. the man who named the special counsel this i

basically is the route that many ships use to enter the ports of both yokohama and tokyo, which are the two busiest ports in japan. the vessel involved, the philippine vessel involved was making that journey itself across the pacific coastline in japan. the japanese coast guard says some 400 to 500 vessels use this route, this channel, and that there have been a number of incidents in the past involving commercial vessels. but the big question, i think everyone has right now is how could one of the most advanced destroyers in the u.s. fleet, how could it not have averted such an incident? did it not see this container ship approaching it, even if it was in the middle of the night? we still don't have any of the answers to those questions. of course a lot of concern about the seven missing people on board, who are on board. 300 to 330 crew members were on board the "uss fitzgeralfitzger seven are still missing. three were injured. all were airlifted out of the ship earlier on in the day including the commander, mr. bryce benson, who was also airlifted. at this moment we're waiting on new

to the ground and those trying to verify whether or not al-baghdadi is dead. joining us now is the jokspokes live in baghdad. we hope you and your men and women are safe there serving your country. what do you make of this news? >> well, first of all, we cannot confirm these reports. if these reports are true, then everybody wins. we know al-baghdadi is a leader of isis. does it affect the rattle in rocca and the fight we are going to defeat isis in mosul? largely not. the moral of the fighters that are there. but we don't think al-baghdadi is one of these guys making battlefield calls and making decisions on a day-to-day basis. >> part of the russian disclosure is that the u.s. knew about the attacks. is that true? >> we maintain an open deconfliction line with the russians. we don't talk specifics about the strikes that happen. we just confirm whether or not our forces are in the area or their forces are in the area so that we can maintain a level of safety so that we are not inadvertently targeting one another as we continue our fight against isis. >> the grounds for skepticism

. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning. if you are just joining us, welcome to "new day." we are following breaking news. russia claims it may have killed one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. isis leader abu bakr al bagdadi. russia's defense ministry says it is investigating if one of their air strikes in syria took him out. they are using qualified language. so are we. >> we should tell you, we had many reports in the past about al bagdadi's death that have not turned out to be true. we are approaching this with caution. his whereabouts have not been known for some time. if this is true, it is a major blow to the terror group. let's start with clarissa ward. she is live for us in london. she has reported extensively from the war zone in syria. what are your thoughts with this news, clarissa? >> reporter: gewe are getting me information from the russian defense ministry as to what they think happened. they say on may 28th they carried out an air strike targeting in raqqah. they say during the course of the air strike, some 330 isis personnel were killed. among them 30

on one of us is an attack on all of us. >> after the firing of james comey, the fbi began to investigate the president for obstruction of justice. >> i still think it is outrageous the fbi is continuing to leak. >> it is a huge deal. the president of the united states is under criminal investigation. >> this is "new day" with chris koe me and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your new day. it is thursday, june 15th, 8:00 in the east. there are two big stories for you this morning. steve scalise is still in critical condition. he is still fighting because of that gunshot wound during that ambush at the virginia baseball field. investigators are digging into the attackers criminal record, his on line anti-trump rants. were there any signs he was headed in this direction? >> so this attack is testing the resolve of unity from president trump and lawmakers as their charity baseball game goes on tonight as planned. meanwhile, the washington post is reporting that special counsel robert mueller is investigating president trump for possible obstruction of justice. the pre

was the capitol police that saved us all. >> reporter: the gunman drove from illinois to virginia in march and living out of a white cargo van. >> he's asked me if this team was the republican or democrat team practicing. i responded it was republican team practicing. he proceeded to shoot republicans. take that for what it's worth. >> reporter: attacker's online posts show a hate for donald trump and republicans. he writes trump is a traitor and trump destroyed our democracy. it is time to destroy trump and company. a month earlier, republicans are the taliban of the u.s. a family member telling the new york times he came to washington to protest trump in recent weeks. also liking a cartoon suggesting scalise should be fired. it is not known if scalise was specifically targeted in the attack. the capitol police officers are hailed as other aheroes for pre a potential massacre. we know crystal griner is still in the hospital. the other agent david bailey was lightly wounded. he has been released. if they had not been there to protect congress member scalise, this could have been wors

was the capitol police that saved us you will. >> reporter: the gunman drove from illinois to washington in march. he spent time at the ymca adjacent to the ball field where he was seen the morning of the ambush. >> he asked if this team was the republican or democrat team practicing. i responded it was republican team practicing and he proceeded to shoot republicans. take that for what it's worth. >> reporter: the online posts show a hatred of president trump and republicans. hodgkinson writing trump is a traitor. trump destroyed our democracy. it is time to destroy trump and company. republicans are the taliban of the u.s., a month earlier. a family member of the attacker tell the new york times saying he came to washington to protest trump. he liked a cartoon saying scalise should be fired. it is unclear if scalise was targeted in the attack. those capitol police officers hailed as heroes for preventing what people are calling a massacre. crystal griner is still in the hospital this morning shot in the ankle. she is in good condition. david bailey is lightly wounded and rel

screaming for help. cnn's phil black is live at the scene in west london with details for us. phil, what is the status there? >> reporter: alisyn, as we speak, there are firefighters in that building still trying to tackle the blaze and the smoldering ruin. that very fast-moving fire has left. no one is talking about this as a rescue operation anymore. it is at best getting rid of the fire and also a recovery operation. authorities are warning. they expect the death toll to rise. probably today and certainly over the comes days. now it started in the middle of the night and moved quickly. people who realized something was going on fast enough. they were able to run through the panicked halls and star w l stairwells and get out. others waited for the firefighters to get to them. others still ran out of time and options. what that meant is people on the outside of the building watched as the fire moved and eventually swallowed these people or drove them to take drastic action. take a listen to what a few witnesses said here today. >> it was just horrific. so awful to see. i'm watching people

with the fbi director jim comey. somewhat. basically he is not telling us what he discussed with the president. he is only adding to the suspicion that somehow they came around to thinking jim comey was doing a bad job once the russia investigation got heated up and they became outraged with the handling of the hillary clinton situation which they could have dealt with far earlier. i think democrats and republicans come away for frustrated. i think this is a strong defender of the president who leaves the hearing with a more support among republicans who came to his defense. >> so a.b., one of the contradictions is that sessions says, the way comey was with the investigation was a problem. he seemed to suggest he had never been briefed on the russia investigation which is really weird to hear from the ag. how is that playing and his questionable basis for refusal to answer questions? >> right. that was remarkable. all along, people have been asking in the different witnesses in hearings whether or not president trump is concerned privately with the russian interference since he doesn

with us. cnn political analyst, reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cillizza. cnn legal analyst, bob mule's special assistant at the justice departme department, by the way. what is happening here? this man is a friend. he comes out and says i think he's considering doing this. i think it is a bad idea. the white house says the conversation never happened. now he is fighting with the white house. >> well, you've got a fight between trump allies with. this is serious because chris rudi knows donald trump so well. it comes on the heels of newt gingrich coming out against mueller. one of the president's lawyers floating this possibility. so you've got a drum beat of trump allies and advisors saying he's considering or should consider firing bob mueller. so take one step for a second. that would be def come 10. that would cause panic among members of congress who are looking for a degree of objective oversight. it should cause concern among the american people. why in the world would anyone think that donald trump wouldn't do this after firing james comey? this is a da

you for watching us. for you "cnn newsroom" is next. for cnn viewers, the president is tweeting, making news. guess what, we're doing to get after it. >> you have to start asking what is the president so desperate to hide from the american people. >> he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. he's weighing that option. >> what the hell are we investigating? >> this seems more like an evident to prosecute donald trump. >> we're not doing to let the president choose to conduct this investigation. >> do you believe he should invoke executive privilege? >> depends on the scope of the question. >> i think it important to establish why he was involved in the dismissal of director comey since he had recused himself. >> the whole thing is sour grapes. >> did sessions meet with a russian ambassador? >> we shouldn't get carried away with things. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "new day." special counsel in russia investigation is under fire. a longtime friend of president trump said the president is

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possibility of the white house just enjoys messing with us on this subject that many of them knew the answer. >> i don't think the white house, it might be the president that enjoys messing with us. >> april, jeff sessions, we don't know whether or not jeff sessions will testify in public tomorrow. the significance of this new moment, maybe you know, 24, 26 hours away on capitol hill. >> what i do know from my republican sources he does not want a spectacle. he wants closed doors, if he talks. and it looks like he will. but he does not want the spectacle, and at issue, you have an attorney general who does not get along with his own president, and he's going to testify, and then the issue of possible collusion -- i mean, the story keeps going, and to find out possibly that he had this third meeting at the mayflower, you know, with the russian ambassador, that's at issue and it's at issue what were these meetings really about. so again, jeff sessions does not want the spectacle of it all, but he is involved. he's in the midst, and they want to talk to him. >> april, matt, john, tha

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blackwell. thank you for being with us. >>> new this morning capitol hill may be getting ready for jeff sessions who could be in the hot seat this time. >> he plans to appear before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. although we don't know yet whether this is going to be public or if it is a closed door hearing but this is coming after former fbi director james comey suggested that sessions may have a third contact with russians and did not disclose it. reports, too, he and president trump had heated exchanges after he recused himself from the russian probe. ryan nobles is following this story. how certain is it the meeting is happening on tuesday? >> reporter: it's very much up in the air. if the hearing happens the first chance that senators get to ask attorney general sessions under oath about the cnn report that investigators are looking into a third possible undisclosed meeting that sessions may have had with the russian ambassador sergie kislyak. the justice department is saying that meeting never happened but session has yet to answer a direct question on that topic. a

use of the words classified information in his letter. that could mean that sessions is expecting his system to have been in closed session. although the larry doesn't specifically state that. keep in mind, the senate intel committee currently does not plans to meet on tuesday and it may be difficult for the committee to prepare quickly enough for a hearing of this magnitude. among theish sessions may need to confront the cnn report that variations are looking into a possible third undisclosed meeting that sessions may have had with russian ambassador kislyak. the justice department reportedly said the meeting never happened but sessions, himself, has yet to answer a specific question on the topic and to appear before the committee he would need to answer that under oath. committee members have yet to acknowledge they have received this letter. at this point, we have to wait and see if and when sessions ever appears before senators. >> very good point. ryan nobles, thank you for the clarity this morning. >>> let's bring in errol louis, cnn commentator and professor of princeton univer

is a physical activity that connects us to other people. over 200 people took part in our study. and some of them, brisk walking, one group did stretching and toning. and one group did dancing. and all of them participated for six months. in all other groups, saw typical age related deterioration of the brain, in the dancing group we observed some improvement in one of the brain regions that's involved in memory. >> we'll do probably 10 to 12 different dances, each one which we need to learn. >> it is a puzzle, you're putting the pieces together. >> dancing has been a big contributor helping me stay younger feeling. >>> i didn't say that, i will tell you i didn't say that. and there would be nothing wrong if i did say it. >> one of them is lying. >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version? >> 100%. >> a he said he said situation. both guys say the other one is lying. >> when will you tell us? >> over a fairly short period of time. you're going to be fairly disappointed when you hear it. >> the house says enough is enough. >> demanding to know if tapes exist