nervous about russia's moves about ukraine. on saturday the russians apparently responded making those 12 passes alongside the donald cook. we are told the russian plane didn't fly directly over the deck of the u.s. navy warship but flew close enough to get the attention that the ship called and tried to reach the cockpit and say back off. the pentagon this morning calling this provocative and unprofessional. no indication that the fighter jet had missiles under its wings but this is the kind of military activity that the u.s. does not like to see of course because when forces get too close to each other you can have accidents. you can have >> heightened tensions clearly being seen as a provocation. barbara starr, thank you so much for that. we want to stay with the situation in russia now where pro-russian protesters in ukraine have taken over a police building. this is the tenth town in eastern ukraine where they've occupied government buildings. they're ignoring a government deadline to put down their weapons and get out of those buildings or face a major anti-terror operation

call inauthentic accounts operated out of russia during the campaign. facebook said they shared this information with investigators.

russia can help us fight isis, which by the way is number one, tricky. i mean, if you look, this administration created isis by leaving at the wrong time. the void was created.

believe the hacking was justified? does russia have any leverage over you, financial or otherwise, and if not, will you release your tax returns to prove it? >> so i tweeted out that i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia, because we've stayed away. and i have no loans with russia. as a real estate developer i have very, very little debt. i have assets that are -- and now people have found out how big the company is, i have very low debt. but i have no loans with russia at all. and i thought that was important to put out. i certified that. so i have no deals. i have no loans. and i have no dealings. we could make deals in russia very easily if we wanted to. i just don't want to because i think that would be a conflict. so i have no loans, no dealings, and no current pending deals. now, i have to say one other thing. over the weekend, i was offered

what you're saying about no deals in russia? >> i'm not releasing the tax returns because as you know, they're under audit. >> reporter: they've been under audit since the '70s. >> the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, okay? >> reporter: you don't think the american public is concerned about it? >> i don't think so. i won. no, i don't think they care at all. i don't think they care at all. i think you care. i think you care. first of all, you learn very little to a tax return. you should go down to federal elections and take a look at the numbers. people have learned a lot about my company, and now they realize, my company is much bigger, more powerful than they

headlines. secretary clinton, russia. they're challenging the u.s. and syria. according to u.s. intelligence, they've lied about who they're bombing. you spearheaded the reset with russia. what would your response to vladimir putin be right now in syria? >> first of all, we got a lot of business done with the russians when medvedev was the president and not putin. we got a nuclear arms deal, the iranian sanctions, an ability to bring important material and equipment to our soldiers in afghanistan. there's no doubt that when putin came back in and said he was going to be president, that did change the relationship. we have to stand up to his bullying and specifically in syria, it is important and i applaud the administration because they are engaged in talks right now with the russians to make it clear that they've got to be part of the solution to try to end that bloody conflict and to provide safe zones so that people are not going to have to be flooding out of syria at the rate they are. i think it's important to that the united states make it very clear to putin that it's no

to mr. trump, possible coordination between his associates and russia's election interference and whether he tried to obstruct the investigation." adding this, "they did shift slightly on format. including they want to have mr. trump answer follow-ups in person." do you think that's going to be enough to get the president to sit down for an interview? >> i think he's playing a public relations game now. he tells the public that he wants to sit down, he wants to talk. he's said that for some period of time but his lawyers clearly don't want him to. what's interesting is basically they're asking that he get a take-home test so he can practice his answers and give something in writing. i thing it's the follow-up questions that concern him the most. possibly the obstruction questions. and so it's odd to have this negotiation back and forth. you know, i'd be interested to see if rudy giuliani, i'd love to know if he ever gave a grand jury witness the opportunity to negotiate what he would say when he would say it, whether or not he was going to do it in written format for telling them.

: through this -- a big distraction, of course, has been this russia investigation, continued revelations about russia and the contacts that occurred between trump officials and russian officials, allegedly. do you think this issue of russia is going to continue to loom over the trump presidency? >> yes. if i were giving the president advice, i'd say we should have a special prosecutor or an independent counsel and let them go do their job. it's looming over the presidency significantly. if, if, if -- we don't know -- but if the trump campaign colluded with russia, that's very, very serious stuff. and there's at least enough evidence to demand a full-fledged investigation. and one thing i'd say to the investigators is look for the facts, but look for the money. there's all kinds of money trails here. we saw this with flynn, manafort probably has a money trail. i think this is going to lead to serious, serious stuff. >> reporter: you think a money trail between trump associates and russian officials? >> well, i don't know. he hasn't made his taxes public. we don't know if it's

few years. >> president trump said when he fired the fbi director he was thinking about the russia investigation. take a listen. >> fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse why the democrats are having lost an election that they should have won. >> does that admission when combined with the fact that president trump according to a source close to comey asked director comey for his loyalty, does that constitute obstruction of justice? >> well look, obstruction of justice is a very complicated issue, it involves intent. i've asked for and our democrats on the judiciary committee have asked for the inspector general to do a complete and thorough report about anyone, anyone at all, interfering with this investigation. once we get those facts, we can then consult some of the great legal minds and come to a conclusion. >> what is your response to the fact that president trump said when he made the decision to fire fbi director comey

information on claims that russia has compromising information on him. director of national intelligence james clapper saying in a statement, quote, part of our obligation is to ensure that policy makers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security. director clapper also told mr. trump that the intelligence community is not to blame for

ago with cnn took it further. when asked if russia knew in advance about the chemical weapons attack in which more than 80 people were i would, here's is what hailey said. >> i think if you look at the fact that when this information

. so many countries already, china, pakistan, so many countries, russia, so many countries right now that have them. now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have japan have nuclear weapons when north korea has nuclear weapons? and they do have them. they absolutely have them. they can't -- they have no carrier system yet but they will very soon. wouldn't you rather have japan, perhaps, they're over there, they're very close, very fearful of north korea and we're supposed to protect. >> you're saying you don't want more nuclear weapons in the world but you're okay with japan and south korea having nuclear weapons. >> when i hear obama get up and say the biggest threat to the world today is global warming, i say is this guy kidding? the only global warming -- the only global warming i'm worried about is nuclear global warming because that's the single biggest threat. it's not that i'm a -- we can't afford it anymore. we're sitting on a tremendous bubble. again, $21 trillion. >> do you have concerns about japan or south korea getting nuclear weapons? >> when you see the money our co

it was russia, but i also think we've been hacked by other countries, other people. and i can say that, you know, when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn't make a big deal out of that. that was something that was extraordinary, that was probably china. we had much hacking going on. and one of the things we're going to do, we have some of the greatest computer minds anywhere in the world that we've assembled. you saw just a sample of it here two weeks ago when we had the six top people in the world, they were never in the same room together as a group, we're going to put those minds together and we're going to form a defense. i have to say this also, the democratic national committee was totally open to be hacked. they did a very poor job. they could have had hacking defense, which we had. and i will give reince priebus credit, because when reince saw what was happening in the world and with this country, he went out and went to various firms and ordered a very, very strong hacking defense. and they tried to hack the republican national

outside the country. >> and yet a lot of the media coverage was about the fact that he is in russia and that he wants to come home. we saw secretary of state john kerry comment about this, and he was comparing, actually contrasting, your case and snowden's. let me play a clip from that. >> there are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsburg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> reacting to that, you are calling is slanderous and

is it going to judge richard nixon? on china, on russia, on vietnam, the supreme court. these things all made a difference. i initiated programs in the field of the environment and hunger and cancer and drugs that i think are very sound building blocks for the future. these are positive achievements. yes, there was watergate. the first president ever to resign the office. that's part of history. >> always remember, others may hate you. but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. and then you destroy yourself. >> i think perhaps the best description of how i felt then is of a little couplet that read, "i am hurt, but i am not slain. i shall lay me down and bleed a while and i shall rise and fight again." that's the story of my life. >>> ten ordinary people, doing extraordinary things. making the world an extraordinary place. vote now for the 2019 cnn hero of the year. vote for your favorite hero or heroes. up to ten times a day every day at cnnheroes.com. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. >>> have you got an extra camera in case the lights go out?

taken for granted, that the weather would cooperate. right now it's just 41 degrees in sochi, russia, and it's supposed to be in the 40s tomorrow as well. so what happens if it's just too warm? ivan watson says, don't worry. one man is guaranteeing snow, no matter what the temperature. >> reporter: just over a week away from the opening of the winter olympics and up here at the ski jump ven use. workers are putting final touches on the entire operation here. take a look. there's not that much snow on the slopes. in fact, it's been raining lately, and the frost line is above the altitude of the ski jump itself. so we've come to speak with a snow specialist from finland, mikko martakinnan consulting wit russian winter olympics. what are you going to do if it's still this warm when the olympics begin? >> yeah. so first of all, don't worry about the snow. snow will be guaranteed. >> reporter: guaranteed? >> yeah. >> reporter: why? >> because the concept is based on three steps. first of all, backbone. ordering snowmaking system. >> reporter: snow machines? >> stock snow machines below ze

alone. and then he said, let russia take care of isis. that's not their intention. now he's praising putin. he's praising putin who is an enemy of the united states. who has repressed the russian people and is acting in their own national interests against the interests of the united states. this is not a serious man. >> sunlen serfaty is live where donald trump is going to be on the stage. jeb bush, marco rubio, chris christie all in new hampshire tonight. donald trump is in michigan. interesting choice. how well is he doing in new hampshire? >> reporter: well, it's interesting, erin, donald trump has been very careful to say that he has any state locked up. the latest cnn/orc poll out of new hampshire showing that donald trump is 18 points ahead of any other candidate. marco rubio is the closest opponent behind him in the second spot. donald trump will hit new hampshire and iowa after a brief pause over the christmas holiday. but interesting and something we'll likely hear more from in the final weeks before the iowa caucus. donald trump has been pleading and urging with voters tha

their military aid if they were attacked by russia and count on the u.s. ul filling their obligations. they have not necessarily always fulfilled their obligations to the united states. trump replied i'm not saying not, right now there are many countries that have not fulfilled their obligations to us. maggie, your interview has shaken a lot of nato allies out there. tell us the reaction and the major point he was trying to make. >> this was consistent with trump's world view. we heard him make comments now for many months. he talked about how it is a free rider issue. going to an article five issue in terms of the basic -- if you attack one of us you attack all of us was different, but again, it all comes back to him as viewing everything through an economic prisim. >> do you think the united states needs rethink u.s. involvement in nato? >> yes, it is costing us too much money. >> so you're suggesting that the united states should decrease their role in nato. >> we are spending a tremendous amount in nato and other people proportionally less. that's no good. >> so he wan

negotiations, the u.s., russia, others have been involved. are you saying that your government was not involved in creating and storing weapons, chemical weapons? >> i am not -- i am not saying my government -- what my government has, what it hasn't. i'm saying my government has never, ever used chemical weapons. chemical weapons were used by these terrorists, and we know the countries who have been helping them. it is a terrible crime what's happening against the syrian people, and it is basically through foreign intervention. turkey -- unfortunately with the support of the united states. there's one man in the united states who's misleading the united states about what's happening in syria, and i think you should stop him. it shouldn't continue like this. >> who's that man? who are you talking act? >> i'm not going to name him. you know him. everybody knows him. >> everybody know who is? you're talking about the president of the united states? the secretary of state? what are you suggesting? >> everybody -- no, no, no. i'm not talking about that level. everybody knows who is trying t

congress back in session, the russia investigations are clearly picking up steam. donald trump jr. will go behind closed doors at the senate judiciary committee as former obama national security adviser susan rice sits down with the house intelligence committee. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the breaking news, the latest forecast is just coming in for hurricane irma now hammering the caribbean with winds of 185 miles an hour. one of the strongest atlantic storms ever. it's on a path to wreak havoc in florida and potentially up the coast. depending on irma's track in the days ahead, tens of millions of people could be in harm's way. the storms are now battering puerto rico after beating up a cluster of caribbean islands. the four strongest government buildings there were destroyed. the concern is that similar scenes could play out in florida where mandatory evacuations have begun and more are expected. the governor is activating the national guard and calling for volunteers. after the house today approved the nearly $8 billion initial disaster relief package i

then he went to two big cyber-intruding powers, china and russia, and left china and went to russia. you've got to ask why did he choose those two? you've got to also ask, do the chinese have all this material? do the russians have it? >> do we know? >> we don't know. >> oh, okay. >> so it's a very serious situation. >> let me move you on to something else. you recently signed a letter urging the president to let

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-- stephen, the young leader of north korea is thinking of accepting an invitation to go to russia for his first visit out of north korea since taking over for his father. what do you make of that? >> number one, i would take it as a sign of confidence on his part that everything is settled well enough for him to leave. when you run a dictatorship you have to be certain you can afford to leave and come back. he seems to have i think exceeding amount of confidence that nothing is coming his way by -- from the united states or internally to contemplate that trip. >> his father as you know used to go to china, all the time. if he decides to go to russia first as opposed to china, what does that say? >> there's a lot of scrambling of diplomatic relations right now with both the north koreans reaching out to moscow and moscow reaching out to north korea. at the same time you have the chinese who have been north koreas good friends, they have been trying to build bridges with south korea. you have different relationships being formed. it's before the dust settles. we don't know what this is goin

response? >> with respect to russia, we're being very careful to develop the guidance that companies need because there are important allies and partners in nato who need specific guidance so they don't run afoul of the sanctions act as well. we're working with the treasury department to develop the guidelines so people understand what will be allowed and what will bring them afoul of the sanctions themselves, putting themselves at risk. i have been through one session on that. it's with treasury now. we're going to get the guidelines out so we can begin the full implementation of the act. >>> president trump says that the united states is more respected now in the world than it has ever been. polling to the contrary, notwithstanding, what do you think is the trump administration's greatest achievement internationally since you became secretary of state? >> i think there have been more than just one, but a couple i would highlight is the president called on nato member countries to step up their contribution and commitment to nato and modernize their own forces. he's been very clear that

manafort's deal means he has agreed to cooperate with mueller and his prosecutors in the russia probe. cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz joins us. now that appears to be precisely what's happening. so what does this mean for the president? >> certainly it could spell some trouble for the campaign folks and perhaps even the president. i think he said it right. this is a big win for the special counsel. this is something they have been working on probably since the beginning of this investigation. they had wanted paul manafort to cooperate from the very beginning but he resisted. finally, it's the prospect of jail the rest of his life that he would face jail time after his conviction in the alexandria, virginia case. that perhaps is what caused him to finally fold. so what will this entail is essentially he's going to have to do everything the government says. whatever it is. if they want him to come in for interviews. if they want him to testify before any grand juries. if they want him to testify at any of the trials. he's going to have to do that in order to, you know, keep

overall behavior. you have blood on your hands, iran. so does russia, by the way. they're threatening israel and all this kind of stuff. i fought against them in iraq, when i was in iraq through their involvement there. i think it's a broad, comprehensive approach. decertifying is different than saying the deal is torn up and we're never going to abide by it. >> true. >> i think it gives the administration an opportunity to go to iran and say we're not happy with it. where can we negotiate from here? >> to get it out there once again you're going to keep your eye on puerto rico. >> absolutely. >> i know it's going to be expensive and you're going to have to figure it out. that is a high priority yes? >>i >> this is the number one role to defend its people, in hurricanes, natural disasters, absolutely. we'll keep our eye on this and deployed all the federal assets necessary, from what i understand. anything else we'll -- i'm a guard pilot, by the way, fly an rc-26. we're involved looking for damage, people that are stranded, missing assets tar needed. >> no question that the first resp

masterful work on the part of president obama to bring the p-5, russia, china into the fold. they have never voted with us in the u.n. on any sanctions in the past. so from diplomatic standpoint to get us to this place was mast masterful. from a scientific place we were served by our secretary and his master ships there. and one of the republicans, a former advisor to bush presidencies, maybe both of them has said he probably knows more about this subject than anyone else in the world. >> the proof -- >> so we know what diplomatly we were success frfl the standpoint of substance. we had superior noj. >> the proof will be in the performance and essential we know what the intentions are. they are premature in terms of what actually happens. we'll wait and see. we get to the speech last night. president obama ends, talking to the american people. his main tone was you people have to remain better to stop the rancor in here. what do crow see at the future? >> i hope that is not correct. i hope we can get some things done. we did in the course of this past year we've been able to get things

number of other fronts including the russia investigations. new details in recent days about twitter and facebook and how those platforms were used by russian hackers trying to influence american voters. we'll dive sb that in detail with two special guests. >>> plus later, a look at pentagon media coverage. is the pentagon cracking down on access to the defense department? a former spokesman for the pentagon will join me live. >>> but first, president trump and what is really his alternate reality about hurricane maria. maria made landfall in puerto rico 11 days ago. the island is still without power, communications are still scarce, people are still struggling there. this is a slow-motion crisis. and all the evidence suggests that both federal and local government responses were flawed and inadequate. but trump and his media allies are swearing that the response has been great and they are blaming the san juan mayor and the puerto ricans who, quote, want everything to be done for them. the president calls for unity in one teat tweet but attacks the media in the next tweet. fake news

on iran, then the talks in syria. the u.s. blaming russia. we have secretary of state john kerry today, saying he has spoken with the russians today about a future round of talks. should anyone be optimistic about this? >> no. i hate to say that, but, no. i mean, if you want to be real and you talked to people who understand this issue, you know, understand the private conversations, understand the details, there's reason to be more more optimistic about iran than there is to be about syria. and i'm not telling anybody to be terribly optimistic about the iran talks. when it comes to syria, this is a huge frustration for the white house and the president has as many critics in congress who say, he should have gotten involved earlier, he should be doing more, he should be more muscular. jay carney just voicing exasperation. shouldn't you be putting regime change on the table for syria? and he says, what do you want us to do, invade? the administration has been frustrated with everybody, but especially the russians, because they believe russia is the one power that can nudge assad,

what i've been doing and by the way, that's what i was doing when i recused myself from the russia investigation. >> right. >> was to stay focused on my duties as attorney general. and ones where i won't have a conflict of interest. it is odd to have the president have his attorney general twisting in the wind the way he is but say, i want him to focus on his job. i want him to do his job and even though i'm disappointed in him, he can do his job. this story's not over, brooke. they're going to have to, as anthony scaramucci has said, they're going to have to resolve this in some way between the two of them. >> number one on sessions and yes, agree. >>> number two, jeff zeleny -- do we have jeff? i don't see him in the box. there he is, jeff zeleny, in the briefing, the real question that was dominating, i felt like, was the transgender issue and how the president, and we saw him throughout the campaign saying to the lgbtq community,ly stand for you, i will fight for you. it seemed to me that sarah huckabee sanders had a hard time defending the president eats twee -- president's tw

know, britain was there, helping to push sanctions on russia, helping to push sanctions on iran, having some sort of loud voice when it comes to china and all the other challenges you have. europe will be weaker without that voice. >> that is my big fear, and i've said that several times during this campaign. [cheers and applause] it isn't just about the fact at that britain was made stronger by being part of the european union in terms of sanctions against russia, but i fear that perhaps my european colleagues, without our engagement would not have been as robust. >> what kind of world are we going to see. what kind of world are we going to see out there? >> well, i said during the campaign, i think it will be a more uncertain world. i don't want to overexaggerate the case. but clearly, i brief, or i wouldn't have been campaigning for britain to remain, that being in the european union gave britain more lief ran. i believe britain's influence in the world is an influence for good, so being able to leverage that voice for good i think made the world a more stable and safer place, and it

, organs of states, the most troubling has been russia. there's no doubt now that russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in our country, and i am deeply concerned about this. i know donald is very praise worthy of vladimir putin -- >> you're wrong. >> but putin is playing a tough, long game here. one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the democratic national committee. and we've recently learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information. we need to make it very clear whether it's russia, china, iran or anybody else. the united states has much greater capacity. and we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information. our private sector information or our public sector information. and we're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. we don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. but we will defend the citizens of t

fact that he is in russia and that he wants to come home. we saw secretary of state john kerry comment about this, and he was comparing, actually contrasting, your case and snowden's. let me play a clip from that. >> there are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsburg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> reacting to that, you are calling is slanderous and despicable. why is john kerry wrong? >> he calls ed snowden a fugitive from justice. i would say he's right in regarding he's a fugitive from injustice. that appeared in my own trial 43 years ago and that was the very first prosecution of any american for giving information to americans. that trial demonstrated that i was not allowed, by the nature of the charges against me under the espionage act, to describe my motives, my reasons, the considerations that had led me to break my promise that i had made

department probe into trump campaign advisor's contacts with russia given that he would be the one in charge since the attorney general sessions has recused himself from the matter. he was also asked about president trump's evidence-free allegations that president obama wiretapped him during the presidential campaign. a charge that the fbi director says is false. cnn's jessica snyder is live in washington for us. jessica, democrats had some more pointed questions today than one would regularly typically expect for a deputy attorney general nominee. >> jake, this would typically be a low-khelil notice confirmation hearing for the number two spot at the justice department. well, instead it was a fire works filled tense showdown over what to do about russia's election meddling and the president's own wiretapping allegations. russia and wiretapping dominating what would normally be a routine confirmation hearing. deputy attorney general nominee rod rosenstein today confronting lingering anger toward attorney general jeff sessions. >> i think senator sessions should come back. i think he owes it

innerian's -- the iranian foreign minister and his counter parts from france china, russia britain and generation are all in lausanne switzer land. cn's global correspondent is there covering the talks. good to see both of you. at least to you first, are the sides any closer? >> well fred all of those ministers are now here and the discussions have really intensified over the last 24 hours and diplomats the see the congress contours of a deal taking shape but it's possible it won't come until the end of tuesday's deadline. these negotiations are very hard the discussion is very focused, very intense and very tough. and the iranians are known as master negotiators, but there are still key things that have not been revolved. iran wants the security council sanctions wanted them lifted on day one. the international community wants to phase them out as iran shows compliance with the deal and there's also how much research and -- the international community wants to keep very tight limits on that but iran is really looking as the deal progresses to be able to keep up with it's nuclear techn

lay off general michael flynn regarding the russia investigation, and the president's subsequent firing of comey. former u.s. attorney, preet barra, now says he believes that president trump would have asked him to do something inappropriate if he had not been fired. barra was let go in march along with 45 others u.s. attorneys appointed by president obama. while not unusual for presidents to ask holdover attorneys to go, the move of was shocking to bharrara and observers. bharrara had said that the president had personally asked him to stay. thanks for being with us this morning. first question i have for you, you expressed concern that president trump would have asked you to do something inappropriate. that's a strong charge to make. what exactly do you think he might have asked you to do? >> it's not a charge. it's my belief, from my perspective, based on what happened over time and based on what i've observed he's said to other people, among other things, as we all know in the public record, and i credit this. he had a private meeting with jim comey after he told two other pe

parts of russia or some other countries, the fbi or the secret service is never going to be able to get their hands on you. you can make a lot of money with very little risk. >> reporter: the good news is that target says it has identified and resolved the issue that allowed the breach, and calls this a sophisticated crime, but for those people whose information was compromised, the question is what to do about it. check your bank statements for sure, but don't just look for a bogus charge at target. someone that has your information can try to use it anywhere. target would not comment on speculation that cash register information had somehow been compromised or that this was an attack on their servers. wolf? >> what a story. joe, thanks very much. let's bring in a top cybersecurity expert right now, kevin mandia, founder and ceo of mandia which helps detect and contain computer intrusions. thanks very much for coming in. what should folks do? 40 million people potentially at risk. do they immediately just change their credit card number? because that can be a pain to follow up and tell

for all if he believes russia interfered in the u.s. election. here's his response. >> i believe he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. i believe in our intel agencies, our intelligence agencies. i've worked with them very strongly. there weren't 17, as was previously reported. there were actually four. >> just to be perfectly clear here, president trump was given yet another chance to definitively state, quote, i believe russia interfered in the 2016 election, unquote. again, he did not do so. those comments come after president trump took aim at america's intelligence community after his meeting with vladimir putin, speaking to reporters on air force one in a conversation the white house will not allow us to play the audio from, president trump says he, quote, really believes putin means it when he says he didn't meddling saying, quote, he says i didn't do that. i think he is very insulted by it. if you want to know the truth, don't forget, all

they are attacked by russia. if you put all this together it's a disturb picture. >> what evidence is there that the russians were behind this in terms of the hacking or in terms of the timing by wikileaks? >> well, we need to let the experts speak on this. it's been reported on in the press that the -- that the hackers that got into the dnc are very likely to be working in coordination with russia and, again, i think it's -- if the russians had these e-mails i don't think it's coincidental that they are being released at this time to create maximum damage on hillary clinton and to help donald trump. >> it is a very, very strong charge that you're leveling here. you're basically suggesting that russians hacked into the dnc and now are releasing these files through wikileaks to help elect donald trump. >> well, this isn't my assertion. there are a number of experts that are asserting this. i think we need to get to the bottom of these facts. that are what experts are telling us. experts have said it was the russians that went in and took these e-mails and then if they are the ones who

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, others who are very concerned about an insur gent russia. >> he talked about her shortly tonight, but we saw him shoot off a few tweets during the speech saying she doesn't look presidential, taking aim at her tell prompter reading. how does at the counter this speech? >> well, hillary clinton certainly looked very uncomfortable up there today. but i think more fund amountly, hillary clinton has made a huge strategic blunder, kind of like her libya invasion in trying to turn this race into a -- >> there was not a libya invasion. >> well, i don't know what you'd call it then. >> libya that she as a diplomat also helped to, there was not an invasion. >> robert gates and others were very skeptical of the invasion and hillary and others pushed for it and it turned into a disaster. >> it wasn't an invasion. to classify it as an invasion, it wasn't an invasion, let's be honest about that. >> a military invasion. >> it was a military action, not an invasion. >> when you use military power to overthrow a regime, that is an invasion. but the fact is that her policies are now at the center of t

call he had with russian president vladimir putin. >>> number two -- russia's foreign minister warned today if the european union imposes new sanctions, russia "certainly will respond." this according to russian state media. eu leaders ay greed on a new round of sanctions against russian interests as well as the rebel leadership in eastern ukraine and the government of crimea. they are due to be adopted monday. >>> number three -- a third american infected with ebola treated in a hospital in nebraska. dr. rick sacra is not likely to receive zmapp, the experiment's drug given to the other two americans, as there are no doses left. delivering babies in liberia when econ tracted the ebola virus. >>> number four -- animal control officers corralling a five-foot cobra after it was found slithering around a southern california neighborhood. the albino captured in ventura county, reportedly a day after it bit a dog. they're not sure where it came from or if it's venom glands were removed but the dog is expected to make a full recovery. >>> number five -- the u.s. state department sending a s

as far as hacking, i think it was russia, but i also think we've been hacked by other countries, other people. and i can say that, you know, when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn't make a big deal out of that. that was something that was

meteor streaked across the sky and turning night into day, it sent shock waves across russia, shattering windows and injuring 1,200 people and causing millions of dollars in damage. scientists say fragments of the space rock crash landed here beneath the ice of this frozen lake near the city of chilibunk. on wednesday, in an operation covered live on russian tv, divers entered the murky water and at the bottom of the lake they found what is believed to be the largest single fragment of the meteorite. it was dragged to shore and weighed where it literally tipped and then broke the scales. >> translator: if it weighs more than 500 kilograms the object is unique itself and one of the biggest meteorites ever found. >> reporter: it crumbled in several chunks but weighed in at more than 570 kilograms. scientists want to confirm this is the indeed the meteorite they have been searching for. >> translator: the niche visual survey doesn't give up 100% certainty. we need to conduct more research and structural analysis and other tests. >> reporter: when it ended earth's atmosphere, sci

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negotiating treaties with china or russia? you have to wonder about these things. >> you are saying that if the pressure of a breast pump, if he caved and folded how would he deal with putin? >> yes. let me tell you, i don't think he was expecting that to happen. >> it it was unexpected? >> i don't know. it was unexpected. it was not a big deal. most people none of the attorneys were really concerned. i asked for a break. they didn't really object to the break. when i told them it was for that purpose later on nobody batted an eye. he just completely could not handle it. >> do you consider the way he treated you that day to be quote, presidential? >> i think nonpresidential is the least of what you can call his behavior that day. i don't say that personally. i say it's unprofessional. it was a lack of self-control. it was fear. it was panic. it was a whole host of things. i don't think any of those things should attach to anybody running for president. >> elizabeth beck thanks for coming on "new day" and sharing your story. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> would love to know wh

another top pick, since edward snowden is granted asylum in russia, can you tell us about his life there? how he's doing? >> he's doing great. what he spends most of the time doing is following the incredibly productive debate that's been triggered around the world over the dangers of surveillance and value of internet privacy and freedom he hoped to trigger. i don't know if he necessarily loves russia, that would be the first choice he would pick to live in but he prefers it to the next three decades in a super max prison in the united states. so i think he's happy to be there given his options. >> thanks for talking. appreciate the. >> thanks, anderson. >> thank you. >>> let's dig deeper with jeffrey toobin and a former whistle blower in connection with the investigation of the so-called american taliban john walker lynn and represents people. jeff, let me start with you. do you believe the british government was justified in detaining him? >> i sure do. let's be clear. i don't want to be unkind but he was a mule. he was given something, he didn't know what it was from one person

and certainly the russia investigation is a big part of that. >> jewelbefore we move on, what you make of this situation tonight? >> well, i think it is republicans fear from 2009 from the affordable care act debate in 2009 coming true. they were afraid then that should this law pass and come into effect and people get benefits that they become used to and like, it is going to be impossible to repeal, which is exactly what's happening. this is coinciding with obamacare really taking root and helping people, and it's hard to take away something people have become used to and kind of like. so they warned about this in 2009, and that's what's happening now. >> it is mind boggling when you think about it. when you think about the number of times they voted on this when barack obama was president of the united states and you think about, you know, everything that he said on the campaign trail, on day one this is going to be so easy, and he's gotten no movement. >> it is easier to be in the peanut gallery than to be at the head of the class and teach. >> when you become hostage to your