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>> just the sloppiness, it appears. clarissa ward, thank you so much. for the first time, harder stance, somewhat, from president trump on saudi arabia, telling "the washington post" that the saudis stories have included, in his words, deception and lice. that is a noticeable shift since just friday when president trump said he believed the explanation, as the saudis had claimed, of a fist fight gone wrong. in the same interview, he praised mohammed bin salman, calling him a strong person with v...

President trump vowed to pull out of a decades-old nuclear treaty with russia. one official says this could be a very dangerous step. we are on it this morning. chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in istanbul. clarissa, you look at these pictures here and it seems to provide pretty convincing evidence this was no rogue operation but a planned one, a premeditated one. >> reporter: thats right, jim. and its ironic that this comes the day after the saudi foreign minister told fox new...

Things in the world. its a good counterbalance to the world. iran, theyre as evil as it gets. there, jim, you see president trump making it very clear that he views saudi arabia as an important counterbalance in the middle east. hes not willing to abandon them just yet. the evidence continues to mount and the world is waiting to find out what the white house is going to do about this story and whether saudip punished at all. jim? >> syria and algeria, ambassador ford, looking at cnns exclusive r...

Behind along the edges. again, no severe injuries, according to authorities. no serious injuries. everybody seems to be recovering right now. the question, what exactly caused this. jim. >> no question, just thankfully theyre all alive. thanks very much. >> cnn has obtained exclusive new video of what a senior turkish official says is a body double, a suspect wearing the very clothes of jamal khashoggi just hours after the journalist was last seen alive. were following it all. well have an updat...

Investigators believe it likely contained khashoggis clothes. as they head back to their hotel, the pair appear visibly relaxed. their mission is complete. now this does appear to give us a better understanding, jim, of why exactly the saudis were sort of brazenly peddling this lie for several days if not the first week that khashoggi left the consulate unharmed but it also raises the question of why they didnt initially reveal or show their own footage. it may have been that they knew pretty ea...

Coming out saying there will be a new arms race, that the u.s. is essentially trying to blackmail russia. there is a lot of anger here. he will meet with sergey lavrov before that and he might meet with vladimir putin as well. thats likely, jim. essentially what the russians want to know is look, we heard an off-the-cuff remark saying that the u.s. wants to exit that treaty. the russians want to know whether its a final decision by the trump administration or whether there might be some sort of ...

President, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader and kavanaugh himself are saying, you know, to hell with it. were going to keep pushing forward and we think we can get the votes. >> we will be watching to see what happens. >> we sure will. >> pretty interesting, dont you think? >> just a little. jeffrey toobin, good to see you, my friend. thank you. >> cnn newsroom with poppy harlow and jim sciuto pick up after a quick break. if youre waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cos...

Time for the good stuff. a news crew in south carolina went from reporting the flooding to rescuing ay woman. they heard a woman yelling for help and found her praying inside. the news crew jumped into action and pulled her to safety. >> it just pulled me in and i couldnt stop it. i had my foot on the brake but it wouldnt stop. >> fortunately, flannigan is okay. >> sometimes journalists are heroes. i think thats a very good message. also, they did just get the scoop. they were able to be her fir...

We go out and do our reporting and then decide what is news and what is the best attainable version of the truth. >> are sources trying to communicate to president trump through you and through sciuto and through the tv? >> the last thing i would ever do is speculate about what sources do. i make my own judgments based on my interaction with sources, but this is no time to be psychoanalyzing sources. >> thats a fair point. >> on air or anywhere else. what you put out there as news -- >> here is ...

And as did jim sciuto. it became very apparent the former attorney to the president of the united states was going around and telling people that the famous trump tower meeting, which indeed was convened for the purpose of collusion. which is to say it was convene bid don junior to accept information from the russians about dirt on hillary clinton that, indeed, cohen was saying that donald trump, candidate for president of the united states at the time, had authorized the go ahead for that meeti...