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Than anyone else in the country, affordably and on-time. (ringing) ( ♪ ) the future only happens with people who really know how to deliver it. breaking news. house speaker nancy pelosi blasting the treasury secretary steve mnuchin for a classified briefing he held today on why the administration is easing sanctions on russian oligarchs. you heard that. easing sanctions on russian glass. they wanted to know why. they brought him to testify. here is what she said about it moments ago. >> with...

Security reporter for the daily beast. she broke this story and david corn. erin, what does this mean, your reporting and the latest from the daily beast? >> thanks for having me. i think one thing we know now based off our three sources in our reporting around the sa sanctions issue is robert mueller is zeroing in on other trump world associate who is have had conversations about the possibility of easing sanctions. we know mueller is looking at two different time periods. hes looking at before...

And that means he could really reveal what the administrations dealings with russia were, the campaigns dealings with russia as well, especially since it was michael flynn who was in regular contact with then russia ambassador and thats exactly why michael flynn was charged. he was charged with lying about his contacts and the fact that he discussed the possibility of easing sanctions. so really, jim and poppy, a lot could be revealed today. we havent heard anything about michael flynn for the p...

Days, with then russian ambassador sergei kislyak, and thats why he was charged, for lying about his contacts with kislyak and the fact he discussed the possibility of easing sanctions. so jim and poppy, a lot expected to be revealed today. the filing is due by midnight, but it really could come at any time. >> did he keep the president informed? of course, a question looming over this. jessica, thanks very much. joining us, cnn legal analyst, page pate, and investigative correspondent for yahoo...

The white house is offering to send secretary of state mike pompeo back to pyongyang for a meeting with kim jong-un in a response to a letter sent by the north korean leader to president trump. national security adviser john bolton not ruling out a second summit between the two men, but first, he wants to see less rhetoric and more action on denuclearization from the kim regime. lets go live to hong kong and bring in cnns will ripley. will, youve been all over this from the beginning. whats your...

Really this is a country the size of ohio with the population roughly the size of texas. and an economy smaller than wyomings, now really with its nuclear program put itself t ce put itself at the center of the global agenda. i think well see ramifications of that. that doesnt change the fact that where we are now is different in terms of tensions than where we were six months ago. and the real question is who wins from the next six months. you know, china and russia are already very aggressivel...

>> nic robertson in seoul. thanks very much. i want to go to matt rivers in beijing. any reaction so far from china? >> reporter: overall the chinese government pretty happyh the way things went here in singapore for a number of different reasons. the government congratulated both parties and they used this summit as a way to bring up the fact that countries could start considering easing sanctions against north korea, something china never wanted to do. two big things that the president said. e...

Opened the possibility of easing sanctions. if north korea can abide by the conditions under the ud nations relations, that would open the door to sanctions relief in the future. they are still enforcing what was agreed upon at the u.n., but they are opening the possibility. interesting development. >> certainly president xi did not miss a moment. mt. riv matt rivers, thank you. "early start" continues with the historic summit between kim jong-un and president trump. from trump.press conferenc...

Expectations, saying we dont want to repeat the mistakes of the past. >> and kelly, what can president trump offer in exchange for denuclearization? >> well, it depends first of all on what kim jong-un will accept. what are his motivations? thats been a lot of talk that economic sanctions are really affecting the country and that he wants to build up the economy. of north korea. so lifting sanctions is the obvious one, easing sanctions, some sort of economic aid. normalizing relations and trade ...

Troubles. h.r. mcmaster was brought on to try to clean up one of the first trump administration officials with the russian government about easing sanctions. h.r. was brought in to replace flynn. both don mcgahn and h.r. mcmaster may be soon planning to leave the trump white house. this comes on a day when steve bannon, former white house chef strategist, the man brought on to run the trump campaign after paul manafort was ousted. his business dealings from the soviet union and links to pro-puti...