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Problem. when rudy giuliani goes on television, jody venn nova and some of these other allies, they never have information to point to say she was a problem. as to the question whether pompeo defended her or protected her, giuliani says that he talked to mike pompeo to tell him that the state department was protecting her, that the president had wanted her out for the better part of a year, and she wasnt out. how she was protected its unclear, but i can tell you with certainty that at the end of...

The better part of a year, and she wasnt out. how she was protected its unclear, but i can tell you with certainty that at the end of the day, mike pompeo agreed with the president and agreed that she had to go. >> michael bender, fascinating reporting. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. joining us now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, obama white house communications director general sake, david gergen, and maggie haberman. maggie, you and your colleagues at the "new ...

Germany. it was a private meeting and trump took the interpreters notes afterwards. unusual step. ive been told by an intelligence source that after that meeting as well, the intel community was concerned that the president had improperly discussed classified information with russia. >> lets not forget vladimir putin himself also a former spy. jim sciutto, fascinating reporting. democrats are calling for commerce secretary wilbur rosss resignation after he reportedly threatened to fire noaa of...

Department. >> fascinating reporting, evan perez, appreciate it. let us know when theres more from the justice department. for those of you at home, id just watch twitter and see if the president weighs in on this. i suspect he will. also has a rally tonight. back to the democratic debates. one wrinkle was attack on the presidents immigration policies. that would be president obamas immigration policies. cnns don lemon asked joe biden about the aggressive deportations during the obama years. a...

That, as this missile facility, i should say its a satellite launched facility, theyve never launched an icbm from there. they have tested missiles from there. after he plenled to shut it down, now hes opened it back up with rapid work happening in the last few days. these photographs showing that the facility could be ready for a launch or test at any moment and president trump saying that would be very disappointing to him, an indication that tensions could be creeping back up after that abrup...

We have seen from the president. whenever somebody is sort of no longer on the presidents side, what he does is he attacks them and he sort of minimizes the role that they played in his work or his campaign. we saw him do this with paul manafort, who was his campaign chairman. >> mj, fascinating reporting. thank you. you can read it all on cnn.com. >> lets hop over to breaking news at the white house. secretary of state mike paompeo about to walk out and brief reporters. youll see this live, on ...

Done by tomorrow? >> reporter: thats the hope, fareed. the hope is that they can get those oxygen supplies reliably fueled and they can get those kids out as fast as possible because the rains are coming, and you know well, this is july in thailand, its going to rain and its going to rain a lot so they have to get these boys out before the water levels start to rise. >> matt rivers, fascinating reporting. outside the hospital in chiang rai. we will be back.

Fascinating reporting, dan, thank you. and you can see much more of dans report on a special edition of "nightline" tonight, right after jimmy kimmel. set your dvr. we move on tonight to new developments in the case of michael cohen. the presidents embattled attorney and friend, facing growing questions over millions paid to a shell company set up by michael cohen. that money coming in after the election from major companies. even a firm with close ties to a russian oligarch. the question now,...

Manafort surveillance, and we should note that manafort has a residence in trump tower, though its not clear if the fbi did surveillance on him there, anderson. >> fascinating reporting, pam brown, appreciate it. want to bring in the panel. scott jennings, asia, how tough as it to get two fisa warnings? >> these are pretty difficult to get. theres a statistic out there that only some handful of fisa orders get rejected, but thats because they go through a lot of vetting before they get to the fi...

You to make a -- just speaking theoretically here, theres no reason to make a case against what the special prosecutor is doing because the special counsel operates independently and cant have his probe shaped by people complaining about it from the white house. the reason you come up with those undercutting arguments is to justify having set a in to fire him. >> right. and a conflict of interest is one of the reasons an attorney general can cite to remove a special counsel under doj regulations...