. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years.
in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sweeping
refuse to share information about the islamic state with the united states. and official telling the post that trump revealed more information to the russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. nbc news has not confirmed the reports about the meeting. roughly an hour ago national security adviser h.r. mcmaster emerged from the white house to offer this denial. there s nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. this story that came out tonight as reported is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. two other senior officials who are present, including the secretary of state remember the
meeting the same way and have said that. their on the record accounts
white house. good morning, al. this morning first response from the white house to north korea s nuclear test overnight. of course it comes in the form of presidential tweets. the president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add major nuclear test. their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the united states. north korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. a couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. first, the first confirmation of any kind from the united states government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. that s important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. second you hear the president say it s hostile and dangerous to the united states specifically. not just to allies and friends in the region. having a specific threat in the
united states and viewing the action through that prism could decide
here. everybody said you couldn t get that. they ve been trying to get that passed for 40 years. we have great legislation. have you heard the liars when they say trump didn t have legislation. i think we have more in the past seven months, i think we have more than even harry trueman o who , people treating their veterans badly or not harry truman. we can fire people who are doing their job badly or aren t doing a good job. we also obtained historic increase in defense spending to prevent and deter conflict. we believe in peace through strength. we re building up our military
like never before. thousand and thousand of brave americans have paid for our freedom and now it s time to preserve and protect their legacy. last night i laid out a vision for an honorable and enduring outcome in a tough place. a place where our country has failed, afghanistan. this is a place where terrorists are trained. you have people that are not exactly united states fans. can i say that? i will tell
the gunman. president trump calls to arm nation s teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. what he did, he trained his whole life. there s an example. when it came time to get in there and do something, he didn t have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. a lot of news today. thanks for joining us. breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. a source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former trump campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. this comes a day after robert mueller filed a 32-count indictment against both gates and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, charging both men with additional crimes,
number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. we believe this plea is happening in washington, d.c. as you ment
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campaign discussed hillary clinton but there was no meaningful information shared. a month later in senate testimony he says i did not tell my father about the trump tower meeting. then giuliani says today trump jr. didn t participate in the meeting. trump sr., the candidate at the time. we weren t alleging he was in that meeting so i m puzzled by why he was going down that road. is he saying that cohen says donald trump was in a meeting with the russians or is he just messing the spaghetti around the plate. i m not sure i heard cohen is saying that. as chris hayes posted on twitter, giuliani says donald trump did not participate in the russia transaction. hayes says, who said anything about a transaction? imagine a world in which a normal subject of a criminal investigation didn t talk about this at all and just went about
their business. we wouldn t be having any fun. but this meeting is consuming so much
anybody. this country hasn t broken your heart? then you don t love her enough. savagely wrong in this country. i don t understand how they would not root for the success of america. it s rooting for the success of all of us. every time that you get undressed i have in my heads i wrote this song just looking at you oh, oh, oh the drums low and the trumpets they go and the trumpets they go. pete: oh my goodness. you don t tell us what music is going to be on the show. they just spring it on us. they nailed it. griff: they do a good job. trumpets.
get the goose bumps going and horns playing this saturday morning. abby: only pete hegseth lives a more interesting life. a normal week. i m going to fly on air force 2. i m going to go with the vice president over to hawaii. we received the remains from north korea. an historic moment. what an experience. pete: it was an experience. i m a little jet lagged. it was an honor truly. air force 2 to get a chance to speak
comes as the administration touts a code, but not great, july jobs report. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us with the numbers. good evening, john. of the president s chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, said today they traded talks with china are going nowhere, in fact, he says the white house says that even heard from china about it for weeks. there were some promising signs of a continued strong economy today, though, even if those numbers were somewhat tempered. the jobs numbers for july came in lower than expected. 157,000, versus a projected 195,000. but the white house one reason to celebrate. pointing out may and june s numbers were revised upwards, and the outlook for economic growth is good for you to speak strong. professional services, an appointment with don, very nice report. but to the gdp model, preliminaries, predicted 5%. i mean, i would be happy with three. they are predicting five. we are off to a good start.
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court. jackie ibanez has more. reporter: no electricity or plumbing, made of mostly garbage. the 11 children living there had easy access to loaded assault rifles. prosecutors say the 5 adults keeping children of the compound were treating them to become school shooters. local information taking place. we also knew from surveillance there was a shooting on the west side. reporter: according to court documents the adult, quote, transported children across state lines for the purpose of receiving advanced weapons training to commit future acts of violence, police and covering the compound as they search for missing toddler, they believe his father, one of the men arrested kidnapped the boy and plans to perform an exorcism on him.
they think they found the boy s remains but awaiting dna confirmation and the suspect is the son of a controversial muslim imam with ties to the 1993 world trade center bombing. they are charged with child abuse and neglect and pleaded not guilty and ar
point, michael cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe that s what s reflected in the kinder document that s been filed by the special counsel. all right. thanks so much. our cnn coverage continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. i m wolf blitzer. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we re following breaking news. we have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, michael cohen. one from the special counsel, robert mueller, and another from federal prosecutors in new york. and we re awaiting another mueller filing pertaining to former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort. there s lots of news that s breaking right now, significant
developments. i quickly want to go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. evan, like all of us, you ve been going through these filings. give our viewers the headlines. what are you findin out? well, wolf, this is a tal