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starts now. >>> good morning. hope you had a wonderful fourth of july. the big question this morning, can the secretary of state, mike pompeo, get north korea to commit to concrete plans to denuclearize? he is on his way to meet with kim jong-un right now. his third trip to north korea. as one official tells cnn, some experts growing more skeptical the regime is ready to give up its nuclear stockpile. >> will ripley has been to north korea 18 times. he is in beijing this morning for us. evening for him. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: secretary pompeo is on his way to pyongyang. it's a trip he made three times. when he hits the ground, he has a huge task ahead of him. the pressure is on to deliver on the vague promises made in singapore, good vibes between president trump and kim jong-un, because now the credibility of this summit kind of rests on what happens in pyongyang. when the secretary is expected to sit down with the north korean leader kim jong-un. the u.s. will be asking for things that may not be very attractive to the north koreans, not in the short term. they want transparency about their secretive nuclear program. that means a full account of how many warheads north korea has. no hidden warheads. the u.s. wants to know where all of them are and they want all of them out. they want to know where they are manufacturing missiles, enriching plutonium and uranium, the kind of things north korea has kept secret. it's a huge reversal if kim jong-un agrees do that. there's a lot of skepticism. reports out that essentially believe kim jong-un is not ready to denuclearize, at least not any time soon. secretary pompeo and president trump and others in the administration not really responding or downplaying the reports. nonetheless, they have to be going in there that this is a huge challenge that lies ahead. then, of course, the big question after this meeting, will there be a trump/kim round two? we talked about this last week. if thing goes well in pyongyang, then perhaps an invitation could be extended for kim jong-un to fly to new york in september for another summit with president trump. that would be the first time in history a north korean leader has done that. >> will ripley, thanks for that from bthat. >> how skeptical are you of kim jong-un's intentions to denuclearize? >> i think the safe thing is to always be skeptical. that's why, frankly, i know mike pompeo well, i served with him on the energy and commerce committee. we talked about foreign policy a lot together. this is the right guy to have there. that said, i believe he knows that we're going to have to have verifiable evidence. i think there's moments over the next few months where there are valleys where we say this thing will never happen and up moments. we judge this by what happens in the end. i really think this is to the point where either we get a verifiable deal or else military action is highly likely. >> the defense intelligence agency is frankly -- they think he has no intention of denuclearizing. they have evidence showing ramping up ambitions on the nuclear front. you are on the house foreign affairs committee. how concerned are you that they are going in the other direction? >> yeah, i don't want to comment on leaked reports from the government. what i will say is this. it appears that kim jong-un is not making proactive steps with the exception of blowing up a nuclear test site to denuclearize. that's why maintaining sanctions is important. that's why continuing to engage our allies and adversaries in the region in saying, despite the fact that we're meeting with kim jong-un, don't believe that this means we're giving up a military posture or posture of strength, which is why i think we need to continue some of the exercises going forward. because look, we want a deal. we want north korea to be able to open up their economy and have no nuclear weapons. but we are prepared to take action if they fail to do that, because that puts us and all our allies at threat. >> those military exercises called war games by the president, if mike pompeo comes home with anything short of a full accounting of the nuclear arsenal, is that trip -- are the meetings a failure? >> no, i don't think so. i would like to see him come home with that. i'm sure he would like to come home with that. ultimately, i think we can judge this by what happens in the end. i know that every meeting we kind of want to look at and be like, this is a failure, this isn't a failure. i think we will judge failure and success into the future. if you look at how the iran situation went down, while i disagreed with what the final deal looked like, let's talk about that process. that process took a year or gtw. people were like, this is good, this is bad. i disagreed with the final outcome. the process is probably similar to what you will see here. >> this week, we saw the senate intelligence committee breaking with the president saying russia did try to help trump win the 2016 election. >> the house intel. >> right. we know trump will meet with putin one on one we're told after the nato summit next week. do you think the president will bring up any of these issues when he meets with vladimir putin? should he? >> i certainly think he should. there's a lot of issues to bring up with the russians, violation of the deescalation zone in syria, the killing of civilians, intentional bombing of hospitals, interfering with the united states election, continuing to interfere in the united states elections going forward, our friends in europe, the continuing war in ukraine. all of these things the russians deny. the poisoning of people now in the united kingdom. they deny all this. you can't trust anything the russians say. i hope the president goes into this -- i'm glad he is meeting with vladimir putin. i think when we can talk to our adversaries it's good. but walk in from a position of strength and don't hesitate to call out vladimir putin on things like this. i'm a great fan of george w. bush, but he looks back and said, when i looked into putin's soul and saw goodness, to paraphrase, he said, that was a mistake. >> to prevent them from doing it in the midterms. you served overseas when you were in the air force. what do you make of the reports that the president asked advisors about innovating venezuela last year. he did say it publically but he brought it up privately to cabinet officials. >> i don't have a problem with it at all. if you look at what we have done in the past -- i'm not advocating invading venezuela. bill clinton almost did military action in haiti. we deposed a dictator. having interest in our hemisphere is something we need to do to pay attention to what's going on. for a president to ask and engage in a conversation, what's good and what's bad about the idea of deposing a dictator in venezuela is not something -- i think the president should explore that. it doesn't mean he will do it. look at millions of people starving and a huge refugee crisis for our friends in colombia and a government that's unpopular. what can the united states do to fix that situation for people in our own hemisphere? >> it's the only time i can think of that i heard him talk about human rights, the president. talking about starving people in venezuela in terms of invading that country. i want to ask you -- you are in illinois. i want to ask you about the tariffs that go into affect tonight. we have seen pork producers, soy bean farmers and growers very concerned. illinois, you are ground zero for trade disputes with china, with mexico, with canada. what are you telling your con stis ent constituents? what are they telling you? >> ag plays an important role here. they voted for president trump. they are willing to give him levera leverage, but they are nervous. we see concern not necessarily taking on china. there have been abusive trade practi practices, but also canada, mexico and the eu. i hope he is successful. i hope he can win. we have to fight back. there's no doubt a lot of my agricultural farmers are nervous. i'm nervous, too. >> how much leeway will they give him? land prices are going down, soy bean prices are down. the near term impact is there. >> yeah. the impact is there. a lot of this started before even tariff talk, the ag economy started slipping five years ago. we are sure to pass the farm bill. they will give him leverage. they're nervous. there's a way to be like we hope the president is successful, but we're cautious at the saum time. >> we will follow it, 12:01 that's go into affect. thanks for being here. >> you bet. >>> cnn learned president trump has finished interviewing all candidates to replace anthony kennedy. he could make a decision as soon as today. >> that's not to say the president plans to pre-empt his own announcement monday. that gives others more time to lobby for or against presumed finalists. abby phillip is at the white house. good morning. where does this end? >> reporter: the lobbying is getting fierce. we are down to the wire on this choice. the white house is expecting him to settle on his decision today or tomorrow. they need time to get runway to prepare the candidates for an announcement on monday. in the meantime, conservatives inside and outside the white house are making it clear what they think about the various candidates who are out there. we have been hearing a lot about a few of the names that you see on the screen right now. brett kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, the president's interview with amy coney barrett, monday, was fairly brief. there's a sense among conservatives on the outside who have been worried maybe she doesn't have enough experience, she's one of the younger candidates on this list and only -- has not had as many opinions to her name. brett kavanaugh also on the list is someone who a lot of conservatives inside the white house are lobbying on his behalf. he is the opposite. he has 300 opinions to his name. a lot of people also weighing in on him. including some outsiders from the hill, tom cotton a senator from arkansas, weighing in publically -- weighing in privately to the white house saying, he is conservative but not conservative enough on one key issue, the affordable care act. we're getting a little taste of what's going on inside and outside of the white house. vice-president mike pence has been a part of the process. he has had interviews with some of the candidates, including cone y barrett and brett kavanaugh. the president is heading to new jersey over the weekend where we are told he will continue mulling this decision. again, they are hoping he will be done with this by friday. >> here we go. abby phillip, thanks so much. >>> you can't help but wonder if serving in the bush administration is a pro or con. >>> a couple is exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter. now the uk is demanding information from russia. >>> a new controversy over family separations. cnn has learned dna testing is being done to help reunite children with their parents. we're learning it's still too dangerous for rescuers to move the 12 boys and their coach out of the cave in thailand. new concerns now about the weather. >>> two more people exposed in the uk is obviously deeply disturbing. the police, i know, will be leaving no stone unturned in their investigation in relation to what has happened. >> theresa may promising that police will leave no stone unturned as they investigate the poisoning of the british couple. >> they were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent, same used on a former russian spy and his daughter in march. the couple were near death and foaming at the death when they arrived at the hospital on saturday. they remain in critical condition. this most recent poisoning happened a few miles away from where the original attack took place. nic robertson live. what do we know? >> reporter: the very latest here is we heard theresa may saying the police will leave no stone unturned. i will step out of the way. get a closer look at some of the vehicles the police are now moving into the area. you see where the truck is going there, towards the left, and another truck to the left of that, that's where the house was where the two people were picked up, the man and woman were picked up by ambulance and taken to hospital. what we are learning from officials right now is that the pair were not targeted, per se, in the same way the others. this is the understanding that the police have. the latest on the investigation that we heard earlier today, the pair remain in critical condition in the same hospital, just eight miles from here. they cannot say -- the british police and government cannot say at this time that the poisoning is from the same batch, which would mean the same precise chemical makeup, meaning they could say that this was some piece of contaminant left over from the attack in march that's been picked up over this past weekend by this couple. at the moment, that's where the investigation stands. that idea of a leftover contaminant is the investigation central operating thesis at the moment. that, of course, may change as we get more information. >> we know that some russian diplomats have been deflecting and giving false narratives on this. the reaction from the russians officially is that they had nothing to do with this attack. >> reporter: this sounds so tit for tat. it sounds like the situation we were in in march, when you had the russian ambassador to the uk throwing up all sorts of stories and theories about what might have been responsible. the british government back then said that russia should say very clearly if it lost control of some amount of this nerve agent or if there was another mechanism through which it was delivered. russia has not answered that question. it said all along that it wasn't involved in the poisoning back in march. it said it's not involved in the case right now. you have the british security minister earlier today saying one day the people of the world will know that russia could have done something about this situation, could have helped. the retaliation coming back from the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman saying essentially, tipping that on its head and saying the british are responsible for this mess and one day the world will essentially understand that. >> nic robertson, thank you very much. >>> add intrigue to a possible russia/england world cup match in the semifinals. >>> it's a race against the clock in thailand. rescue workers are quickly trying to pump water out of the cave where a group of boys has been trapped for nearly two weeks. another round heavy rain is moving in. officials fear it could potentially cause the cave to flood more. >> rescue teams say they do have some sort of an emergency plan if the cave becomes too dangerous for the boys. jonathan miller is in thailand. the emergency contingency plan is? >> reporter: it's more of a question than a fact, to be honest. they have got several options. plan a appears to be to get the boys out before the rains start using converted scuba equipment through these incredibly difficult passageways leading into the cave, probably -- it's a six hour trip out for experienced divers. goodness knows what it will take to shepherd these children out after their exhausting ordeal. the contingency plan you talk about i think is an accelerated version. if the rain comes and when it comes, it's torrential and it will flood the cave system again very quickly. they have been working very hard to pump out as much water as they can. the pumps are down there. the outflow is down the hill. it's been flowing out for days now. i watched it. they have managed to get the water levels to drop a lot, which is great. but not enough to lower the water level below the roof level. there will be patches of the exit which will require actual diving. that is the hard bit for the boys. >> the boys, as young as 11, as old at 16. do we know anything about their condition? >> reporter: well, we have seen the condition on the video. that's as much as we have known really to date. which is that they're in really pretty good shape considering. the doctors have checked them over. the thai navy seals have sent doctors down there. there's one with them all the time. they checked them for one thing, which is their nutritional levels. two of the boys were found to be suffering from malnutrition. their assistant coach, the 25-year-old who went down there with them, is also suffering from malnutrition. that means they're going to be in a weakened state. the other problem that i have just learned is we understand that there are depleted oxygen levels now in the chamber in which the boys are staying. this is dangerous. it could be as low as 15% oxygen. they have been trying to pump in fresh oxygen. tanks have been positioned down there. hopefully, that will sustain them. they will gather enough strength to make this dangerous passage out. >> so many hurdled. the smiles on their faces are for their moms and dads. they took the video to say, we are here. still a minute to minute situation. jonathan miller, thank you. >> no thing as an accurate two-week forecast. but looking at the models, every day has thunder showers. >>> president trump calling our immigration laws, quote, insane. this as his administration turns to dna to match up families it split apart at the border. more on that next. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. you're smart,eat you already knew that. but it's also great for finding the perfect used car. you'll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. now you're even smarter. this is truecar. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? 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>> reporter: we know this information was first made aware to us by an immigration attorney. this is something that the federal government could have easily volunteered to us when we asked what the step by step processes were they were taking to reunite parents with children. instead, we had to find it through immigration attorneys who have clients inside here. what we are told from sophia greg who said her complaints were approached by men in military-style uniforms, she knows they are from the office of refugee resettlement. they took is a lie saliva sampl blood samples to match the dna samples. this is part of the expedition -- to expedite the process of reunification, saying it's for the children's safety. because in some cases parents posing as parents are actually smugglers. the feds are saying they're doing this to help the kids. there are advocacy groups here, which questions the intent of the procedures, of the dna testing. i want to read what they sent to us. this is a further demonstration of the administration's incompetence and admission of gift. they never registered children and parents properly. they are up against a tight deadline. july 6, parents need to have made contact with children, by july 10, children under 5 need to be reunited with their parents, by july 26, according to a federal judge's ruling, all parents and children need to be reunited. >> hhs said the lawmaker visits to the facilities are getting in the way of the reunifications. do we have evidence that's true? >> reporter: you know, we talked about this last hour as well. the first lady was down here. that begs the question, did she get in the way of the process? these visits from congressmen and senators have been few and far between. they happen on the weekend. there's work that can be done during the week. we have been demanding answers. we have not gotten answers to many questions squestions, inc processes, how fast this is happening. we are told with most groups we have been in contact with that at the very least, these children have been in touch with their parents in most cases via phone or letter, some type of communication. what we don't know is exactly where that number stands of how many children have been reunited. we would like to know the answer. >> so we would. nick valencia, thank you. >>> the president is tweeting about immigration policy. he said that america's immigration policy is, just don't come here. that's what he would like our immigration policy to be. he is saying, it should be like your front lawn. if somebody comes, you tell them to get off. that's what it should be like in this country. we shouldn't have judges, people coming with this due process at the border. they should just -- >> that's one part. it started by saying congress must pass immigration laws. this has gone back and forth. he pushed congress to pass legislation. then he said he did not push congress to pass legislation. now he is back on board. are you with me this ? 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can they stay on message and make sure that voters are excited about coming out in the midterm elections? >> you heard harry's analysis. is this wishful thinking? >> i think intensity is the key. i agree in that sense. which of the two bases is going to be more animated? the reason why i think republicans have an excellent chance to retain the senate and at least even odds to retain the house is because they are going to have greater intensity going into november, in part because of donald trump. i think you see this in the republican base. you see some excitement about trump. a lot of the disaffection for the president when he got elected has washed away. i do think that intensity will take over as we approach november. >> i look back a little bit. the most highly publicized primary night race, there are more than 200,000 registered democrats in that district, only 29,000 voted. i guess that's my skepticism about this voter enthusiasm. democrats, what is the message they are rallying around in the midterms? is it focused on immigration? how much of a trap could that be? >> it's not solely focused on immigration. in fact, democrats are talking about things like the spiraling health care costs we have, the rise in gas prices, bread and butter issues, issues of economics that they should be talking about. the fact is, this remains a referendum on donald trump. like most midterm elections, it boils down -- the intensity boils down to how people are feeling about the commander in chief. we have someone who has deplorable numbers. he goes between 35% and 42%. i think he is around 42% approval right now. it's an immigration issue. it's more referendum on donald trump. this house map is vastly different than the senate map, because democrats have a much more difficult time because there are more seats we have to defend when you are talking about montana, south dakota, indiana. these are very difficult seats to hold on to. that map is vastly different than the house map. >> let's stay on immigration. you have this optics, which i think are terrible at the border of the kids being taken away from their parents and now the chaos in getting them reunited using dna, in some cases. the president tweeting just moments ago about how he wants an immigration policy, reasonable immigration, new immigration laws. he appeals to his base with way simple analogy. imagine it's your front yard. somebody steps on your front yard. you say, you are not invited. go away. he really i think appeals to his supporters when he makes it so plain. there are a lot of democrats and republicans in the middle of the country who agree with that, who look at what's happening on the border and don't see bad optics and chaos. they say, why are people coming here in the first place. >> you are right. i think the optics are very, very bad. they're horrible. you are right in the sense that for the base, again, it comes back to intensity and motivation. immigration is one of those issues for republican voters in particular, if you look back over the last several election cycles, this has been an animating election issue. i don't care if it's state or federal elections. the president is trying to appeal to the base in an effort to turn them out. he knows if republicans do not turn out this november, republicans do not retain the senate and they do not retain the house. that is why you are seeing this sort of split screen image. it's awful. to a certain degree, the outcome of this has not been good either. >> for the president though, he has been effective at branding, at labeling, marketing. if he can market democrats ahead of the midterms as open border democrats and republicans as wanting to tighten the border and protect the community, how do democrats fight back against that narrative? >> i think the imagery is bold. the imagery is very pronounced. you have children who are being ripped away from their parents. you have children in cages. that imagery is so pronounced. yesterday, you had a young black immigrant, activist, scale the statue of liberty and remain -- say she was going to remain until the children were reunited with their families. this is a theme that's going to go on throughout the midterms. this isn't the lone theme the democrats are running on. this is one of many issues the democrats -- substantive issues the democrats have to remain on message about. we get caught up in just being anti-trump, anti-trump, but americans when we talk about intensity, we want people to give them a reason to come out and vote, not just something to vote against. >> let's talk about the supreme court pick. that will happen any day now. we think the president narrowed down his choice. he finished seven interviews. where is the wind blowing for you on the supreme court pick? >> again, coming back to this question of intensity. if you look at voters heading toward november on the republican side, a lot of them frankly -- they held their noses and voted for donald trump. at least he will give us a conservati conservative supreme court pick. he did that with neil gorsuch. this next list he is working off of for the picture to replace justice kennedy, these are conservative as well. he will use this not just to change the face of the supreme court, which is fundamentally important from a policy perspective, but he is going to be able to use it to drive that turnout, to drive the conservative base as we go toward november. >> earlier you mentioned the math for senate democrats. those ten senate democrats running from trump states. how difficult will this be given the supreme court nomination, if they vote against that no, ma'am no nominee it could cost them their political life. >> i don't see those ten voting for the nominee. we have things like roe v. wade that i don't see how they vote for someone who would put women's health at risk. i don't see that happening. i think that we are a big tip party. they represent their state. bill nelson represents florida. tester looks like montana. i think they will be fine. i don't think this vote will be the end all be all. >> i will bet you dinner on that one. some of those have to vote for this guy or gal. >>> remember the fbi raid on president trump's personal lawyer? lawyers have to tell a judge who should stay private, what could go public. to keep our community safe. before you do any project big or small, pg&e will come out and mark your gas and electric lines so you don't hit them when you dig. call 811 before you dig, and make sure that you and your neighbors are safe. >>> it's deadline day in the case of the president's former attorney michael cohen. the trump organization and the president's attorneys have until tonight to finish reviewing thousands of items seized in the cohen raid. >> joining us to discussion is national security analyst ashur ongatha. >> right now, what you have are documents being reviewed by both cohen and the trump team to see whether they want to claim that some of the documents are privileged and to assert their objections to those documents being passed on. already we know that the special master, who has been appointed by the court to review the i believe 4 million documents seized by the fbi to see whether they are privileged, has passed on about more than a quarter of them, about 1.3 million documents to the fbi -- to the prosecutors for use in the case. you know, it's going to -- we have to see on what basis they're going to assert any objections, given it looks like michael cohen actually had very few actual legal clients which would form the basis of any kind of privilege. >> a lot of social media gossip about the fact that michael cohen removed trump attorney from his twitter bio. that's just perhaps a bit of inside baseball. want to tap into your years of experience as an fbi agent to get your take on this latest poisoning of two in the uk with that nerve agent, same one used in march. what do you make of the russian reaction that this is part of a uk conspiracy? >> that has been their claim since the attack back in march. you know, it's disingenuous because the intelligence community has stated that this particular kind of nerve gas can be traced back only to russia. in fact, something that was being developed as far back as when the soviet union was developing this kind of gas. they are obviously going to claim that they had nothing to do with it. this is a huge violation of nation sovereignty. it is, i think, quite astonishing that both in the midst of this and the intelligence community's assessment, which was validated by the senate intelligence committee that russia interfered in our oelection, we have senators in russia right now and the president being willing to meet with putin and not seeming to push back on either of these fronts. >> meeting with putin, we're told, one on one. he wants to meet with him one on one. one wonders how tough he can be. >> no real record for -- of everything that was or was not discussed. >> nice to see you. thank you so much. finish your thought. >> go ahead. >> we saw this before at the g20. this will be a repeat of the private meeting. >> we will be watching the interesting optics. >>> the top dog, you might call him the lebron james of competitive eating, joey chestnut breaks his own world record. the latest next. parallel parking job" goes to... 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