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good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. im brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. were beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was th...

Report that claims to reveal multiple employees and persons of interest inside the central bank with potentially concerning connections to the chinese government and institutions. cnns katie bo lillis is joining us now on this story. tell us about this. >> hi, brianna. they have issued this report today that is claiming that china has essentially infiltrated the federal reserve in part for coercion and in part for leveraging their foreign talent recruitment program to try to influence current fe...

Almost every nation in the world spies. most nations in the world spy against the united states. we are the number one target. there are at least 70, give or take 10, nations spying on the u.s. if you were to believe there are probably in excess of 100,000 foreign agents working in this country, thats not paranoia. thats a good guess. my name is chris simmons. i was a career intelligence officer with the defense intelligence agency where i headed counterintelligence analysis for the americas tea...

We dont know what he might have written in this report. >> i think youre exactly right. and we know that because we saw robert mueller doing exactly that. what we saw that she viewed his mandate very narrowly. so when things started to exceed the scope of what he believed he had been directed to look into, he referred those out to different u.s. attorneys office. we saw this with the southern district of new york and with other offices as well. the other part of this, as you alluded to as well, ...

>> or some young folks, like don junior and jared kushner. >> exactly. >> people previously in politics. steve, weve talked many times about how russia uses its contacts. it builds networks to get information. do you see that in how they dealt with gates and manafort? >> yeah, i think, yes, absolutely. i mean, certainly manafort, as i was alluding to earlier, has a long record of contact with people that would have ended up you know back at moscow knowing about it, the russian intelligence servi...

About how russia uses its contacts. it builds networks to get information. do you see that in how they dealt with gates and manafort? >> yeah, i think, yes, absolutely, man a for the has a long record of contact with people that would have ended up you know back at moscow knowing about it the russian intelligent services knowing about it. i think paul manafort is the kind of guy based on his activities in ukraine for the puppet government and yanukovych, they would have said this guy would be us...

350e up to people doing whats called an agent of influence. bend the presidents ear and say we would like you to do this, that, or the other, being under the control of the russian government. its a wide variety of different things that they might be looking for. but the fact that we continue to see and hear about more e-mails that come up from a counterintelligence perspective is concerning. it depends on whether or not it really rises to a legal issue or not. thats something that mueller and h...

An agent of influence, somebody that could bend the presidents ear, all being under the control of the russian government. so its a variety of things theyre hooking for. but the fact that we continue to see and hear more e-mails is concerning. it depends on whether or not it rises to a legal issue or not. thats something that mueller and his team and others are looking for. but from a counterintelligence analysis, its concerning. >> kirsten, its so interesting that at this stage, given the lengt...