. >> 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

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

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

and finding new ways to harm us, to disrupt us, we have got to find involved new ways to keep us safe. so over the next few days, londoners and visitors will be seen an increased police presence that will include increased armed and increased uniform officers and plain clothes officers. the threat is severe. that means an attack is highly likely. it has been there a while including the manchester attack. that means visitors to our city, londoners should know that we are the safest global city in the world. >> reporter: now, just to be clear, one of the notable issues last night with these three attackers we were told wearing canisters and presumed to be sued bombingers bers and that w hoax. the prime minister said today five plots have been thwarted wince the westminster attack in march but already there are calls now mounting, including from the chief of the met police today who said these are increasingly hard to predict and, therefore, hard to prevent and it is going to reopen a discussion of the level of our resources and that is a very political and factual issue right here. many

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

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

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

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

? >> 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

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

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

long-term care expenses. so i use excedrin.ments from my life. it starts to relieve migraine pain in just 30 minutes. and it works on my symptoms, too. now moments lost to migraines are moments gained with excedrin. [heartbeat] >>> former u.s. attorney opening up about the interactions with president trump saying his own experiences mirrored those of james comey. >> they are unusual phone calls. what i have been reading about how the president has been contacting jim comey over time. felt a little bit like deja vu. it appeared he was trying to cultivate some republican. it was a peculiar thing for a one-on-one conversation without the attorney general with the president and me who has been asked to investigate various things. >> p bharara was fired in march after refusing to side with other obama-era attorneys. let's bring in the panel. david drucker and karoun demirjian. you may have an attorney adding more legal weight to the argument that the president intervenes or meddles or makes inappropriate kmeptcomments. you also have bharara is not apolitical. >> it doesn't make what he sa

us with the laits. >> good morning, allison. president trump is expected to hold a joint news conference today at the white house. it will be the first time the president has spoken with reporters in three weeks. likely only to take a couple of questions but at least an opportunity to speak to him about this extraordinary turn of events on capitol hill. perhaps what was most striking about the testimony of fired fbi director james comey is that he accused the president of the united states, plain and simple, of lying. comey, even went as far as to suggest that he prepared memos about his conversation about the president because he anticipated the president lying about those interactions. list listen. >> there's no doubt. it's a fair judgment, it's my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. i was fired to change, or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. >> comey made it clear that he was making what might be described as one of the noisiest exits by a lawyer in the history of government law. he essentially took o

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

differently than the way washington used to run. he campaigned on. that people voted for him on that accord. >> breaking the rules metaphoricall yorks is one thing. i just mean he has no boundaries. that may be fine for the people who supported him. it has gotten him in repeated trouble. this is not just democrats. >> trouble winds up taking on a defining term. phil mudd, we talked about this on and off tv. comey can come down tomorrow and create headlines for the next two or three days. that doesn't mean there will be substance to wind up in charges or major development by the investigation or special counselor otherwise. >> that is right. here's what to watch for, chris. if you are sitting at the fbi now, every fbi fs officer, i wo say the same thing. please don't talk about the current case against u.s. citize citizens. a case led by robert mueller. a whole second half the story that comey will speak about. russian involvement and presumably his conversations with the u.s. president. if you like doing jigsaw puzzles, watch this. i'll be saying who was at the other end of the

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

comey and trump. trump brought us the birther lie against barack obama and rode that to political prominence. now wants a face-off of who you believe between he and james comey. comey has credibility issues for sure. this is the president who threatened the fbi director. he had tapes. he better not hope there are tapes. put up or shut up. where are the tapes? you can win this credibility fight. put forward the tapes. all this tough talk from lawyer and the president and how he will fight. put up. >> if you read into presidethe have not heard tapes. that may be an indication it was more talk than walk. jeffrey toobin, if comey is right because he gave himself wiggle room because he thought mueller would look at obstruction with the president. if that were true, why would mueller, the guy who has to be the main witness go out in the senate and get slapped around and have credibility called into question? >> mueller understands that consequen congress has a role here. think about the scandals in history. watergate. iran contra. they both had independent counsel investigations and con

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

told us. we're talking about he said, he said. we don't need to do that, chris. the president of the united states told us that he fired the fbi director for conducting a counter intelligence investigation. that's a fact. we learned one interesting thing as well, though, and i think this is critically important and nobody is talking about it. comey keeps throwing grenades right at the foot of the attorney general jeff sessions. jeff sessions when he recused himself from the investigation said this is sort of a technicality. i had a couple passing meetings with the russian ambassador, but i'll step back. what does comey do? he tosses a grenade and says i thought the attorney general would recuse himself, but if you want me to explain why, i have to do it in a closed session. you know what that's saying? it wasn't a technicality and you should ask me more. sessions has a lot to answer for. and i think comey twice in two days threw grenades at him. >> let's play the sound and then jeffr jeffrey, you can weigh in on the legalitie legalities. >> he was very close to and evidentbly going t

for calling it a travel ban. >> when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. >> the husband of top aide kellyanne conway, a leading republican lawyer, warning that the president's latest tweet storm may have repercussions if and when the case goes before the supreme court. >> this obsession with covering everything he says on twitter and very little of what he does as president. >> that's his preferred method of communication with the american people. >> that's in the true. >> administration appearing to downplay the importance of the president's tweets. >> it's social media, chris. >> it's not social media. it's his words, his thoughts. >> not policy, not an executive order, it's social media. please understand the difference. >> after touting twitter as an essential part of the president's strategy for months. >> donald trump's twitter platform is a purrful way for him to connect with people. >> president trump escalating his fight with london's mayor in the wake of saturday's terror attack accusing mayor sadiq khan of offering a pathetic excuse when he adv

, inappropriate, these are the words james comey uses to describe his interactions with president trump in this riveting seven-page opening statement, ma tick you lousilylousily. he told advisors he wanted to speak to me alone before turning the conversation to flynn, who he had fired the previous day, stressing that flynn did nothing wrong in his contacts with russia. he is a good guy and he has seen a lot. i hope you can see your way to letting this go, letting flynn go. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? >> no, no. next question. >> comey does not say whether he believes this is an attempt to obstruct justice, but he does say it concerns him. after that meeting comey writes he asked attorney general ral sessions to prevent any future direct communication between the president and me, although he did not tell his boss that the president broached the investigation of general flynn. two weeks earlier, the president summoned comey to a private dinner asking him if he wanted to stay on a

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

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

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

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

, thank you very much for previewing all this with us. >> all maggie has to do is give me the look and i know she's right. there it is. >> i know that look. >> that's all you need. we have to change the rundown. maggie gave me the look. >> 6:15. that is the look. >> you all look great. thank you for being with us. tomorrow's testimony any way you look at it is must-see tv. "new day" is getting in 5:00 a.m. eastern. we start with the best reporters in the business. the special coverage will begin at 9:00. an hour before comey breaks his silence. 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> heated exchange reported between president trump and jeff sessions. does the president still have confidence in his attorney general? that would seem to be an easy question to answer, but not so much for the white house. we'll discuss. i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit cold turkey. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. for me, chantix worked. it reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, chan

true. if this is a credibility fight with he and james comey. the president brought us the birther lie. a lot more to go here than credibility. by the way, he said he had tapes. it is time for the president, his lawyer to put up or shut up. where are the tapes? if you want to win the argument with comey. let's get it on. put them out there. >> that's what comey said. lordy, i hope there are tapes. all of this that you are laying out depends on good faith curiosity by political leaders and it is clear that the president's party doesn't want to go there. where does the process go? we discuss that. now james comey's testimony is in the books. what happens next in this political process? usaa gives me the and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. ...to a new world.s... deeper than the ocean. as unfathomable as the universe. a world that doesn't exist outside you... ...but within you