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♪ ♪ there are. ♪ ♪ leland: welcome to "americas news headquarters" from washington on this saturday. great to have you here, im leland vittert. gillian: and im gillian turner in for elizabeth prann. heres whats making news right now. secretary of state rex tillerson says lines of communication are open to north korea as he travels to china to get help loring tensions across the region -- lowering tensions across the region. leland: plus, president trump gets into a twitter war with the m...

165 in some places with wind speeds there would not have been survivable. you are now getting into a much better place here, chris, youre going to get into the winds dropping off rapidly to 35, 45 miles per hour and thats the good news, but the rest of the story is that were going from here to pelican bay to bonita springs heading up the coast with the same event that you just had there. i have a question for you, if you can hear me, i know the winds going down a little bit. i dont know if you h...

Intelligence. how do you sift what can be gleaned from the statement? >> i look at this like an intelligence officer. you look at the information from a source and the recollections of the source through many lens. two of the most important are whether they are reliable and whether they are valid. you look to see whether theres some ground truth to it. the story appears to be changing. we have a lot of questions about the truth. you look at credibility okrecre time. someone else who looks at inf...

Media, posted it out to anybody who wanted to come help. the response was overwhelming. i responded as well. >> what challenges do you face? at the end of the day, its just a group of guys with a lot of military training but just a group of guys, two boats you said, and not a lot of supplies. what are the challenges? >> exactly. so the first thing is just navigating the roads. houston and the coastal area all the way out to louisiana is so ba vast, you could fit several states in there. the leve...

North koreans know that the united states would overwhelm the north koreans and any kind of arms race or a ground conflict that they could provoke. secretary tillerson said americans should sleep well in their beds tonight as michael just pointed out. those are the guidelines here. those are the ground rules. thats the ground truth. thats what we need to bank on. >> everybody has their achilles heel. youve done some extensive work on the family from the grandfather to the father and now the son....

The internet, nobody knows youre a dog. you say youre a credible source, how do i know that? just because somebody linked to it we have this phenomenon that if i put it out there and somebody else links to it and the third person links to it, we think its author tate i because somebody else has mentioned it. were talking in a vacuum there. it is, you know, getting to the ground truth, the ground truth of what was really said and was really done is becoming harder and harder to do in this interne...

Going to read all the tweets about this. if you think this is b.s., youre going to dismiss it. i dont know that this story moves anyone from one camp to another. >> i kind of assumed that he was involved, which is perhaps a -- partly the reading of the reporting, and partly an indication of where my bar is listening to the white house. >> did you think sekulow wasnt informed? >> i dont know what the truth is there either. this speaks to an inability of this white house team to protect the presid...

>> david, even if it doesnt enter the legal realm, just the fact that it does impact the presidents credibility in the white house. >> no doubt. team trump took a credibility hit today in the face of jay sekulow, and it came from the white house podium. sarah huckabee sanders went out today and basically conceded that the trump team and his lawyer didnt have the truth in the initial telling of this. remember when sarah huckabee sanders first spoke about this, she didnt know. she didnt know if th...

With president trump or at least having this conversation about this statement just doesnt seem like a wise idea. >> no. he should have been protected. the president should have been protected from this. i suspect he probably inserted himself into it, at least thats what it sounds like. theres a couple of problems. one is talking about how donald trump did insert himself. the reporting is that the instincts were to get all the information out and then donald trump inserted himself and no longer ...

Thread. >> reporter: according to the lawsuit, butowsky had also texted wheeler before the article was published saying, "the narrative in the interviews you might use is that your and malias work prove that the russians didnt hack into the n dnc and steal the e-mails and impact our election." >> i thought it was horrible because what did that have to do with the murder of this guy that i was investigating? >> reporter: wheeler insists the fox reporter attributed fake quotes to him, one even sug...