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people? i m very concerned, chris. i worked hard in a bipartisan way to get $380 million in election grants out and distributed to states. that s something senator klobuchar, senator lankford and others really fought for. and i m trying this week in the election excuse me in the upcoming appropriations votes we re having in the senate to get another round of $250 million in grants to states so that they can strengthen their cybersecurity defenses so they can procure new voting systems and equipment. senator klobuchar was just on in the previous segment with anderson cooper. yep. she and senator lankford have a great bill, the secure elections act, that i think we should take up and pass that is a corollary or a complementary
referring to, chris, who testified today, clearly a career professional, was
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17 angry democrats. they take value in the number 17. a potential sign. i hope he didn t use that number for them. he doesn t always use the number 17. i don t see that as being intentional. but who knows these days? but he has their interest. so what are they doing now? well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. you saw what happened with jim acosta. if we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, you ll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. they re even stalking stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti. why? why go after michael avenatti? because he s identified as one of trump s opponents. and they are now out to defend the presidential from their imagined array of opposition. and not a word from the white house about this. actually, that s not true. sarah sanders did say this today. unfortunately, it s now standard to abandon common sense
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disconnect with trump and the national security team on the subject of russia meddling. president ranting about the russian hoax hours after his top intel officials called out the kremlin for interfering in the upcoming 2018 midterms. at the rally in pennsylvania, he ta touted about the helsinki summit. we got along really well. by the way, that s a good thing. not a bad thing. that s a really good thing. now we re being hindered by the russian hoax. everybody said that was great. a couple of hours later, i started hearing reports that, you know, they wanted me to walk up. they wanted me to walk up and go like this. son of a hours earlier, key members of the national security team appeared in the white house
briefing room to warn the country the russian election interference is ongoing. in regards to the russian involvement in the midte-term electio elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campai
the fact is that we don t need a direction from the president to the intelligence chiefs to be on guard against russian interference with our elections, number one. number two, as far as what the president says on any given day, frankly he says a lot of things. he is, i think, campaigning against impeachment rather than saying anything that is designed to affect the outcome of the case. so i kind of brush that off. but to go back to your first point, that we don t need the president for the intelligence community. that s a little counterintuitive. we expect the leadership from the president to be of paramount importance when we re dealing with threats like this, which to the democracy is basically existential. so for him to not be on the same page seems to be highly counterproductive. it s counterproductive, but it is not at all necessarily critical. these intelligence agencies, particularly in an administration where statements
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doi
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the cleanup was after the helsinki summit saying he meant to say wouldn t instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. the difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security team s willingness to was noticeable. striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. in the run-up to the helsinki summit,s u.s. officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. he didn t address that. you said to make the issue of meddling a priority. how do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. i think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. when you h
clinton and don, jr. among others. and there is more. a federal judge is forcing a long-time aide to trump advisor roger stone to turnover documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, hearing evidence in the mueller investigation. stone sought damaging information about hillary clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic e-mails, e-mails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the trump justice department identified as agents of the russian government. there are also new developments in the trial of the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort s bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the pro-russian former ukrainian president. and that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the trump campaign. the bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. t
so we know she met with mueller s team. do we have any idea what they asked her? we don t right now, anderson. what was asked by mueller s team to davis. but we know this woman, as you said, known as the manhattan madam voluntarily spoke with investigators. and what she knows and how she fits isn t exactly clear. but sources tell cnn mueller s team would like her to testify in front of a grand jury. this really points to the fact that the special counsel seems to be focusing on stone as they continue this overarching investigation into russia s interference in the 2016 election. and davis really has a very close relationship with stone. they ve known each other for a decade. stone is the godfather to davis 2-year-old son. stone put davis on his payroll. and conversely, when davis made a new york gubernatorial run, stone worked on her campaign. perhaps she has information on his finances, his connections, his friendships, any other personal life matters. we should mentioned, anders
she joins us now. what did these e-mails between butina and gordon reveal? yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the swiss embassy in late september 2016. so really in the final weeks of the trump campaign. and then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over e-mail, and they show that the fact that j.d. gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the e-mail relationship that they then struck up. paul erickson referred to the fact that he was an important person likely in a trump transition, and then j.d. gordon himself sent back to ms. butina at some point a copy of a story from politico noting that he had a role in the trump transition. and there was an invitation from gordon to her to attend a concert as well as his birthday party in the fall of 2016? yeah, that s right. they have a series of e-mails.
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robert mueller looks closer to her ties with advisers, roger stone. out of control wildfires and rising temperatures. we ll talk to an expert about climate change. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. we are glad you are with us. i m natalie allen live in atlanta and cnn newsroom starts right now. we begin with disturbing information coming from a confidential new united states report. it says north korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs. the report also says pyongyang has been trying to sell weapons to a syrian arms trafficker, yemen houthi rebels, libya and sudan. this is an embarrassing blow for president trump and those in his administration who were optimistic north korean leader
kim jong-un would follow through on his pledge to de-nuclearize, our paula hancocks is live in seoul for us. reporter: a confidential united nations report given friday night has shown the north korean government is evadeing sanctions with el
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to bomb them. so to keep that negotiation lukewarm at best, and to continue chipping away at the international sanctions regime. this sanctions regime as we learned from the u.n. report is like swiss cheese, there are so many holes in it. north korea is violating the import ban, the export ban, they re selling conventional arms to bad actors in libya and yemen, and we know that china and russia are very supportive of lifting sanctions on north korea while all of that is happening, so north korea s best bet is let s keep talking to the united states, let s keep producing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and keep trying to get china and russia to pressure the united states to lift sanctions in the interim. and speaking of russia, pompeo s warning to enforce north korean sanctions, given that russia uses a lot of workers from north korea, will russia listen to that? and what s really going on with
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