The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Yesterday, trying to defend his client, talking about a lot of these issues related to Michael Cohen. Seemingly, creating more chaos and confusion in his wake. After an interview with cnn yesterday morning, giuliani seemed to open two new fronts in this whole saga, claiming, first, that collusion may not even be a crime, which is different from what we have been hearing from the president. The president has been saying there was no collusion all along. Now we are seeing President Trump backing giuliani up in a tweet this morning, reiterating that collusion isnt a crime, even though he himself just two days ago suggested that democrats should be investigated for what he claims is their collusion with the russians. Then on a second matter, giuliani starts talking about a meeting, a Planning Meeting that he claimed happened before that Infamous Trump tower meeting with don junior and russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. He later tried to clarify in a subsequent interview saying
this. He says there was a meeting with donald junior, with jared kushner, with Paul Manafort, with gates and possibly two others in which they, out of the presence of the president , discussed the meeting with the russians. We checked with their lawyers, the ones we could check with, which were four of the six. That meeting never, ever took place. It didnt happen. Reporter First Giuliani seems to open up the possibility that a Planning Meeting happened, that no one was talking about but him. Then he went on to say that that meeting didnt happen. Everyone is just left really confused here, poppy. The white house aides telling us that they did not coordinate with giuliani over his appearances yesterday, which isnt entirely surprising. It indicates that they are not entirely happy with all the things he has been saying that seem to put them in more hot water. Thank you, abby, reporting
from the white house. Lets talk about, selena zito and lynn sweet join me. It would make better Tabloid Sense for trump to dump giuliani and Hire Dershowitz who has worked to shield him from his appearances, f appearances. Trump has been surprisingly f t flatfooted so far. Perhaps, he has finally met his match. Is giuliani setting more fires than he is putting out . Absolutely. Its a bigger world than just the nosew york tag war going on and trump and giuliani should know that if theyre trying to
communicate something, its more than to the woods on those new york papers. Giuliani has succeeded in one thing, in confusing everybody who isnt keeping close tabs on this case. Dont underestimate the power of confusion. It runs in parallel with the war that President Trump is waging on the news media with another issue just a few minutes ago on his twitter feed where he predicts we will bow out of Busine Business in seven years, that he will win another term. Confusion is a tool if they want to make people think i think what they are aiming at that somehow this is a witch hunt. See how it all plays into this theme. Confusion is an important tool that giuliani is using. I dont take it lightly. Great, thats exactly how i want the press to be spending their time. Selena, it appears the tactic is working, at least somewhat in trying to discredit mueller. Cnns most recent polling on this shows the number of americans that approve of the way that mueller is handling his job and the russia probe has fallen from 48 in march to 41 in june. Are they winning the messaging war here, at least in the court of Public Opinion . For a tactic that has not message as lynn said, its all over the place. Yeah, obviously, it appears that way. Im a reporter and every day i feel as though im placed in the third season of Game Of Thrones and i should have never watched the first two and im trying to figure out all the characters. Its really hard to put
everything together, piece every message together. Lynn is right. Dershowitz would be perfect. He is always on message. He is always very articulate. He explains things, not always in the way that benefits trump, but in a way that people understand. I agree, this is a chaotic tactic. Its working. Its working. When it comes to the trial that ann laid out exactly whats at stake for muellers team here, how do you think this plays among his voters and among the biggest supporters of the president . How critical is a win in this manafort case, the first one, for the president . Well, its critical because if this case is lost, then it will force the mueller team to regroup and say, what are we
doing. On the other hand, the rebuttal is that this case is the fruits of the investigation into the russian role into the 2016 election. Its not about it. That is hard to explain to the public. This is an important case, but it just is an offshoot. Prosecutors are allowed to follow where it leads. It wont be good. A lot of these one of the things that will be done in this trial is to tell the manafort story, which puts the attention on him, not on trump and not on russia. It may in summary, its not good if mueller loses this case. I dont think its the end, because his prosecution continues. There are other people still in the pipeline. Some of the revelations from this trial still may have an impact. Selena, the president has tried ever since the indictment dropped and the charges were filed against manafort to
distance himself. He ran the campaign at a critical time leading up to the convention for five months. You travel through parts of the country that support this president so much. Do they believe him . Do they think Paul Manafort is not that big a deal in the president s world . Well, for instance yesterday, i was in ohio, in a Rural Suburban Area outside columbus for covering the special election. There were tons of voters there. I talked to them about numerous things, Including Manafort and Michael Cohen and all of this russian thing. They dont pay as much attention to who is running the campaign. That name Didnt Imprint on them as someone that was important. A lot of people that i asked said, he was the delegate counter, right . So thats how they sort of view him as some guy who was brought in to make sure delegates worked
and left. I think because theres so many moving parts and because the Manafort Trial is separate and its not having to do with trump, people are like confused as to why its even happening and or what his ties are to trump and ties to why mueller is conducting the special prosecution. I think thats where the problem lies. Theres too many moving parts for it to stick with voters. And be meaningful. One part of the case that we will all be watching for and where his role in the campaign does come up is how he got a loan from a bank in chicago, from a chicago banker we talked about that. Who was who thought he was he was angling for a job in the trump white house. He did get an appointment to an advisory panel. Of those five people who were granted immunity, which you were talking about, two of them two of them work or have worked for the bank and two of them are among the 35 on the witness list. Right. He didnt get a job in the white house. But i hear your point. The case the prosecutors will try to make. Thank you. Ahead for us, a new report says north korea is working on new advanced missiles, all of this despite the president recently declaring that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. A close eye on a hearing going on in the senate. Officials with the department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department are testifying on efforts to reunite families separated at the border. We are on that. Cnn goes one on one with lebron james at home in his hometown of akron, ohio. During the interview, he got candid about the president. Listen. What i noticed over the last few months, that he used sport
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united states. Right. If you are worried about missiles hitting the u. S. , this is the plant. Its where north korea made two of their biggest icbms, including the one from last november that had a range long enough to reach the east coast of the united states. Thats where they are still seeing signs of work. Theyre seeing construction on at least one, possibly two new icbms, these long air frames that can reach the u. S. You mention this in your reporting that this is not an expansion of north koreas abilities. Its building on the current what they currently have. Is that significant . p. Thats important to point out. Whats going on is business as usual, the same activity we saw before the summit, theyre still doing it. They dont show signs of stopping. What we hear is they are talking
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their top advisers. Theres an agreed upon strategy here. That is, dont have a shutdown at the end of september. There will be a shutdown fight. Everybody im talking to says it will come after the election. You look at what john thune said, its a negotiating tactic. Mitch mcconnell said we will Fund Government in a timely and ordinarily manner. Im a believer in hitting things head on. If the president wants to shut down the government, thats his prerogative. I dont i think it would be a mistake. I dont think its going to be necessary. Thats repeated by everybody. It shows you where they are. The big question right now on capitol hill is how serious is he. Think back to health care or tax reform. The president diverging from the strategy is not necessarily a rarity. But whether or not he is willing to hold on to that and make a fight out of this is another question. Is he willing to lose the house over it . Thats the concern. I will tell you something thats
happened over the last couple of weeks, that is, is the white house willing to sacrifice the house because the president wants a punching bag coming into the 2020 election . Theres this idea of it will be better to run against congress, better to run against house democrats. I havent heard that from the white house. Republicans are concerned sometimes. Frankly, when things are quiet, they get concerned. Theres kind of relevance to the idea. It worked for bill clinton at one point in time. I think the reality right now is behind the scenes, when i talk to republican staffers on the hill, they are hearing the strategy stands the president will be with them in the end. They are willing to have the night after the election. The concern is real. There was no time line on that trump tweet a few days ago threatening the shutdown. You know this is going to be a fight. Theyre ready for it. If it were to happen before the midterms, he would put the kavanaugh hearings in the air. This is a huge point im told was made by Mitch Mcconnell in the oval office two the president in a private meeting last week. Which is republicans feel good about where they are in the kavanaugh nomination. A lot of time to go, but they feel they can get him confirmed. It would happen at the end of september when a shutdown would occur. They dont want to step on that message, on a confirmation. Push it off. Mcconnell thought trump heard him at the time. We will see. Your sources telling you, take a win here. Thank you. Nice to have you. Thanks for having me. President trump heads to tampa, florida. He will campaign for a candidate who according to the New York Times the president decided to support after he saw him defend the trump agenda on fox news. The president tweeted this morning, congressman ron desantis will be a great governor, if he wins. He embraced all things trump. Here is part of his latest political ad that certainly got a lot of people talking. He is teaching madison to talk. Make America Great again. People say ron is all trump. But he is so much more. Joining me now is the former chairman of the Florida Republican party, al cardinus. Thanks for being with me. My pleasure. Good to be with you. Lets talk about this. You have his primary challenger, who the vicepresident was supporting, who was way ahead in fundraising, way ahead in the polling, until desantis started going on fox news over and over again. The president saw him on fox news, tweeted about him and has been supportive of him ever since. The table has turned here. Has the president been a king maker in florida on this one . So far, apparently so. Desantis was 20 points behind, very few people knew him. Between fox news and some of their personalities and the president and his tweets and commentary, he gained more than 30 points without spending a lot of money in a period of less than a month. We dont see that in florida. So thats a strength. Its a weird race. Republicans have had republican governors for 20 years. Statewide elected officials are republican. This is a highrisk deal for the president. Let me read you how the New York Times puts it this morning and get your take. Quote, mr. Putnums collapse and mr. Desesantis rise illustrate the extraordinary clout mr. Trump wields. I think we will see in the General Election. Some states he is liked. Some states he is not. In florida, he is under water right now. Think about this. If republicans cant win the presidency unless they win florida. 2020 is coming up next. If for some reason the democrat wins General Election and some of it is attributed to the embrace of the president , he is going to have a hard time in his reelect in 2020. He is going out on a limb in what i consider a highrisk deal. Tonight he speaks in tampa, which actually went by just a few Percentage Points for hillary clinton, that part of florida in the 2016 election. You think he is not going to talk about immigration, right . You know, you never know with the president. In a state as diverse as florida, you would think thats bad politics. Were talking about the primary, not the General Election. Immigration moves points in florida. He may touch upon it. If he sticks to a script, its going to be about the economy, jobs. Florida gained a lot of jobs. Its going to be about how well
the thing is doing. He may be a little rough on Whats Going On with dictatorships in Latin American because of the hispanic population. If he touched on immigration, its a primary play, but its not going to help the party in the General Election. Come november, you know that trump will obviously affect the turnout up and down the ticket. Which party do you think it will help more, republicans or democrats, in the state . Thats the big question. Right . Look, we have a senate race where rick scott is ahead three points right now. We have a governors race that has a tough primary on both sides. My sense is, its going to go down to the wire. Probably the top of the ticket races will be won or lost by turnout. He cuts both ways. He gets excited the republican base. But democrats go crazy when he speaks. Who is going to win the turnout
battle in florida will determine who wins the statewide races. Thanks for being with me this morning. Today, a push for some states and lawmakers to stop people from being able to download and print a gun. Seriously. This becomes legal tomorrow. Will it be stopped . We will explain ahead. Are you a christian author with
it will be legal to print your on gun. But attorneys general from eight states are working to try to stop that. They are hoping for an emergency injunction. Even the president weighed in on twitter. I am looking into 3d plastic guns being sold to the public. Spoke to the nra. Doesnt seem to make much sense. Lets go to tom foreman. Apparently, according to our reporting, some of the plans have made it online. Some folks are downloading them. What will be legal tomorrow . Whats The Big Picture impact . The big picture whats legal tomorrow is you can download the plans. Thats what the argument is. If you have purchased a high enough level 3d printer, you can create a lot of components for guns or you can create in one case, a single shotgun, you might be able to create that one right there, the entire gun. Thats a single shotgun that doesnt have much durability, thats for sure. Thats whats possible. The reality is though, to create these things, you are going to have to spend several thousand dollars at least on the type of printer that would be able to create the parts and put such a gun together. In practical terms, its still wildly more efficient and effective for criminals and terrorists and anybody else to go buy guns, even on the legal market or on the black market. They can get them better there and they are more reliable than anything we are talking about here. Can you give us the background on this . As i understand it, this stems from a case back in 2013. This is an agreement a settlement reached between the man who initially came up with this and wanted to be able to do it legally and the trump administration. Thats this was centered around this single shot plastic gun. Again, its important not to conflate things. That gun is truly made entirely of plastic, except for a metal
plate put into it just to conform with the law that says there has to be metal in guns so they can be detected. Its not a functional part of the gun. Thats what this was about initially. This gun was out there and this gun is scary because the idea is it could get through a Metal Detector and not be seen. These others, as you can see, involve metal parts. Thats more complicated. Still the idea that people could start producing unregistered guns or untraceable guns in their garage, thats a big challenge. Thats what people are feared about, more fearful of the future than whats happening at the moment. Like an ar15. Thank you. We appreciate the reporting. Lebron james sitting down with don lemon as he takes his talent to the west coast, he is leaving something behind for his hometown, for the children there. Next, what that is. And what he says could make him run for president. Would you ever run for
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and learn about them. And they got an opportunity to learn about me. Don lemon spoke to james. A fascinating interview about what he is doing in akron, ohio, teaming up with the Public School system to create an Elementary School helping to work with children. The faces on the kids. We walked into the classroom. They had no idea he was coming. One little girl, she shrank down in his seat. Oh, my gosh. Her eyes got huge. She couldnt even speak. They were so excited to see him. They dont care what color he is. They just love him. Thats it. Im so glad you did this. So glad he is doing this. I have been reading about this for years, promise and what he is doing. Its not just money. He is throwing his heart into this. Before we get into the politics and what he said about race, Lets Talk About this school. Lets listen for a minute. Cue up sound where you talk to him about why he is doing this for the kids of akron. What do you home happens from this school . I gotta tell you, i walked through. Im impressed. Everybody is impressed. This is a great thing you are doing. What do you want to happen . What do you want what i want to happen, every kid that walks through those doors, from the 240 we start with, to the 2022 where we have first through eighth grade, we want every kid to be inspired, to come away with something, something where they can give back. It could be anything, but just for kids in general, all they want to know is that someone cares. When they walk through that door, i hope that someone cares. Not only does someone care, someone is doing something, not just for the kids, for the whole family. Its a holistic approach. Its a stem school. They talk about mathematics, engineering, science and so on,
technology. Its a stem school. Its also holistic. Its for the whole family. If the parents dont have a high school did i mroem ploma, they there and get it. Two meals and snack. 8 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. Every kid who lives more than two miles away, free transportation. Every kid gets a bicycle and helmet so they can transport themselves to and from school. Its a holistic approach. Incredible. You spoke to him about Whats Going On in the country right now, about the president , about race, about the divided country. Lets listen to part of that exchange. Theres been something has changed in you over the last year or two. Is it Whats Going On in the country racially . Is it mrpolitical . Its a little bit of everything. It starts with the Trayvon Martin situation. The reason it starts with that, i believe, is because having
kids of my own, having boys of my own, it hit home for me to see and to learn a story and to think that if my boy left home and he never returned. That kind of that kind of hit a switch. That kind of hit a switch for me. From that point on, i knew that my voice and my platform had to be used for more than just sports. You think its harder to be when you see these incidents of being black and what happened, do you think its harder now . Do you think its always been there, were just seeing it because of cellphones and i think its always been there. I think the president in charge now has given people they dont care now. They throw it in your face now. Would you ever run for office . Run for office . Would you ever run would you ever be a politician and run for office . I dont think so. I sit here and say i dont think so. I dont know. Im being serious. If someone tried to recruit a lebron to run for president ,
they have no one, if you dont run, trump will win, would you run . In that case, i may. If they have no one, i believe there is some people out there, i hope. But if theres no one. Lets see first. You are laughing. But you dont think i think he would. It has become so important to him. He is so outraged and rightfully so. Concerned i should say is a better word about whats happening in the country when it comes to race. We sit here on television and you have to discuss it. Lets hear this side, that side. Theres no other side. Theres no other side to racism. Theres no other side to saying that there are good people or fine people on both sides in charlottesville. Its absurd. Its the theater of the absurd. I commend him for speaking out and not being concerned as a sl celebrity about im going to tick this group off. Im glad you say that. There are athletes who say, this is my job. Im doing my job. I dont have a responsibility. I dont need to be the role model for every kid. I dont need to speak out. He feels so differently. He feels that he has a unique position. I asked him about this. He said, this is how i feel. Other people can do what they want. I think to a certain extent anyone who has a platform, anyone who makes a livelihood off of the public has the responsibility to give back and to speak out for whats right and wrong. Its not about right and left. Its about right and wrong. When wrong is happened in the past in this country or in other places and people didnt speak out, we see the atrocities that come Electric Thfrom that. Its incumbent to do so, journalists, athletes. I think lebron james sees that. If people didnt see it all last night, where can they go . Cnn. Com. Check out social media. Thank you, my friend. Good to see you. Great interview. Were usually here at opposite hours. Thank you. At this hour with kate bolduan starts after a quick break. Because he hid his customers gold in a different box. And the bandits, well, they got rocks. We protected your money then and were dedicated to helping protect it today. Like alerting you to certain Card Activity we find suspicious. If its not your purchase, well help you resolve it. Its a new day at wells fargo. But its a lot like our first day. With tripadvisor, finding your Perfect Hotel at the lowest price. Is as easy as dates, deals, done simply enter your destination and dates. And see all the hotels for your stay tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites. To show you the lowest prices. So you can get the best deal on the right hotel for you. Dates, deals, done
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