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The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Reportedly thats not what most upset the president. Instead, manaforts python and ostrich jackets are stealing the show this week, people close to trump tell cnn thats the thing that frustrates the president , david. So what do we suppose is going through the mind of the president right now . Good morning, fred. The president is feeling that pressure and of course would be irritated by all of these descriptions of manaforts lav...

The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Purveysive campaign to try to weaken and divide the United States. Our democracy is in the cr s crosshairs. Russia attempted to interfere in the last election and continues to this day. Reporter there seems to be a tale of two different white houses. Offering two different messages. The president in one speech that went over an hour long to...

Indication its no holds barred. Its only fitting for a bully to hire a bully to run his campaign. He can hire or fire anybody he wants from his campaign. There is no new donald trump. This is it. Worsening controversies, falling poll numbers, dire warnings from his Party Leaders to tone it down. Eight weeks until people in ohio vote. Donald trump wins wisconsin when pigs fly, and trust me, they dont here in wisconsin. Ah, yes, night one for the new Trump Campaign. The shakeup at the top. Meet st...

If the tariffs are put into effect. in a closed door lunch today, senators cold the white house there could be a disapproval vote saying they could have enough support to override a veto. they would levy a 5% tariff that would rise to 25% unless mexico stops the flow of migrants coming to the united states through their country. according to the "washington post," there is a growing consensus that the tariffs amount to a tax. bad word for republicans. a contributor and adviser for rand pauls cam...

All right. we are following new developments with north korea. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo spoke with his north korean counter part at a conference in singapore. they met briefly, shook hands. later pompeo passed along a letter from president trump. earlier this week trump himself received a letter from north korean leader kim jong-un. global affairs correspondent eli elise, whats the con tent of the letters? >> we dont know the context from kim jong-un or the letter from president trump...

Eli eli elise joins us. >> reporter: this woman was a russian citizen. she had worked for u.s. secret service at the embassy in moscow for more than a decade, working out of the u.s. embassy. a lot of agencies employ different employees. this woman worked in the secret service. she came under suspicion during a routine security review by the state department diplomatic security, which does security for the embassy. the security office found she was having regular, unauthorized meetings with russ...

That coming from head of the senate foreign relations committee. >> i dont want us to do is to end up at a place that actually lowers our own credibility in dealing with it. were looking at it. i can understand the request. im not sure it is appropriate to subpoena the translation notes. but if it is, wales certainly look at it. >> with me now, former federal prosecutor joseph moreno, and global affairs correspondent, eli elise, whats the role of an interpreter? would he or see ever had had note...

Theres no privilege concern there. might be classified, but congress can get around that by having a closed hearing. purely from a legal perspective, if congress was determined to subpoena this interpreter, they could do it. whether they should do it -- to elises point, you would set a terrible precedent to start subpoenaing interpreters, protocol officers, military and secret service agents. you would literally make it so the president had no ability to have private conversations. we all want t...

Translator to get an idea of what happened in the meeting. but for a verbatim or transcript of notes, those notes are the property, i would say, of the president. >> got it. elise, thank you. joe, thank you. next well talk to the man who says president trumps summit with putin was essentially the final straw for him. why he resigned from his job as a republican county chair in one county in ohio. for years ive trained dogs for the marines -

On track. this follows a surprise meeting. the summit was sposed to take place, on thursday, president trump pulled out blaming it on threatening statements by north korea. eli elise, what exactly do we know about this team that has now crossed over into north korea? >> well, the team is led by the former u.s. ambassador to the philippines who under the earlier obama administration served as the u.s. envoy to six party talks. he is no stranger to negotiating with the north koreans and is leading...