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that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. ♪ good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. >> always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russias war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possib...

Just last week, an armed man tried to breach an fbi field office in cincinnati. >> lets bring in cnn contributor garrett graph to discuss these threats. hes also a contributing editor at wired magazine. good morning, garrett. grateful to have you. help us understand whats driving these online threats? kwho are these extremists? and where do you find them most often? >> yeah. so i think its important to say that the people who are driving this level of extremism right now are the leadership of th...

Suggested regarding cyber security. declaring 16 kinds of critical infrastructure off limits to cyber attacks. that will put putin to the test also. it is very verifiable whether they lay off those facilities or whether they continue with the ransomware attacks. so i thought it was altogether a fairly clever approach by biden. but no immediate results were ever expected. >> were grateful to have you and your knowledge and what you think happened in geneva. thank you very much. so i want to bri...

Tom foreman, cnn, washington. despite everything we just told you, one of the presidents biggest defenders, fox news host sean hannity dismissed the findings and declared victory even though the ig found there was no political bias and more than enough evidence for the fbi to launch the russia probe. >> well, everything we said, everything we reported and everything we told you was dead-on, center-accurate and the mob and the media has missed what is the biggest abuse of power corruption scand...

I want to bring in contributor garrett graph. what do you make of what we are hearing from the judge, emmet sullivan, saying look, this was a serious offense. you have a high ranking white house official lying to the fbi and lying to the american public about the conversations with russian ambassador, sergei kislyak. he is taking into account what the special counsel said in terms of his cooperation, gary. . >> this was one of the reasons this was a strange turn of events when michael flynn trie...

Muellers seshl special assistant. juliette kayyem and cnn contributor garrett, the author of the threat matrix inside robert muellers fbi and the war on global terror. we have certainly assembled the right group to discuss this. jim, im starting with you. good evening to all of you. exclusive reporting from cnn, the president has begun taking preliminary steps to prepare for a possible interview with the special counsel. can you fill us in on what more you are learning. >> my colleagues are lear...

Mueller knows before he even gets to the point of that -- that memo with rod rosenstein. >> great information. i got to go, michael. i got to go. you know we didnt mention in everything, you know, garrett said a bad week. we didnt mention stormy. but were about to. thank you. >> michael cohen. >> there we go. stormy and michael cohen. >> you never ask me on -- you never ask me on for stormy. >> well get there eventually im sure. everything sort of ties together. >> everything will merge. >> stor...

To -- his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. i worry about, frankly, you know, the access to the nuclear codes. >> and just to be clear here, this is a man -- this is someone who is known for being nonpartisan. he has worked for the four previous presidents, including both bushes, where he first served as the head of the defense intelligence agency under bush 41 and later under bush 43. so with me now, c...