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Town that is just 13 miles southeast of the border with russia. >> lets discuss this with jim sciutto, the author of "the shadow war." thank you for joining us this morning. i want to start with the question over the intelligence that the u.s. is providing to ukraine. and to what extent we believe that ukraine might be using this u.s. intelligence to help them take out this series of russian generals over the past two months. >> to be direct here, cnns reporting does not comport with "new york t...

Which is quite skrextraordinary. mines and explosive devices left behind through the north where russia has pulled out. he said this was deliberate. this was a deliberate policy, must have been authorized from above, a deliberate attempt to make that stretch of country essentially dangerous and unlivable. and as he says, it leaves ukraine, he believes, the most mined country in the the world right now. >> phil, thank you so much, do appreciate that very much. john? joining me jim sciutto, cnn ...

Morning. hes cnns chief national security correspondent and author of "the shadow war." that is what stood out listening to officials, even the president before this attack. they were talking about these risk. there was this open question. why cant someone just blow themselves up in this crowd? and now we have the answer. they can. >> they can. listen, the situation was a horrendous security situation, right. you have concentrated crowds coming in around the airport. those are the kinds of crowd...

Conspiracy theory itself is russian propaganda. >> some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propulgated by the russian security services themselves. >> thats right. russian propaganda. i wrote a book about russian interference and other aggression "the shadow war," how many digital fingerpr...

Territorial aggression, pushing the envelope and seeing what the u.s. response is. they have gotten the better of it for years now, the request he is will the u.s. push back. thats "the shadow war" available anywhere you want to buy t amazon included. more breaking news this morning, here at home. the u.s. economy added only 75,000 jobs in may, that is well below experts forecast and it is happening as the president is threatening to impose new tariffs on mexico which would have economic impac...

Cedric leighton. final question. if this is a test, and it is a test, russia of the u.s., what would you like to see the president do in response? >> i would want him to be very resolute. i would want him to make it clear to the russians, first diplomatically, but also sending military signals by deploying perhaps more ships and some airplanes, perhaps more reconnaissance flights against russian targets, and they could be anywhere, they dont necessarily have to be in the pacific, but they theed ...

So you can make it clear what really happened. i think pursuing or discussing a formal damarsh through the state department -- >> tim mat tick communication. >> it gets it on the record. number three, to not diminish the u.s. military presence this these parts of the world. these are international waters. this happened near islands that the chinese and japanese are still disputing over. its important for the u.s. military to maintain a presence out there, particularly in international air space ...

Last week, kenyas high court unanimously ruled to uphold laws carried over from the colonial area that criminalized gay sex. 67 other nations around the world also maintained legislation punishing same-sex relations. it brings me to my question. approximately what fraction of these nations were formerly under british rule? one quarter, a half, two-thirds, or three quarters? stay tuned, and well tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is jim sciuttos "the shadow war. : inside russia an...

And said what he said then would it be different today? >> absolutely. if the day that this is presented to the attorney general, i think we would have had a can completely different -- it shows the way we selectbively present information can shape different realities that people live in. and heres the deal, don. if we dont have a shared reality that is based on an established set of facts, which is what the mueller report is about. justin amash has been tweeting about in very eloquent threads, ...

So now what? lets discuss with frank bruni and author of "the shadow war" available everywhere. thank you, everyone, for joining us this evening. what a news day. you know, we have them quite often but this one was particularly momentous, shall we say. were going to start with you. mueller said if he had confidence that the president did not commit a crime he would have said so. how important was it to hear mueller say that himself? >> listen, it was in the report but the fact is most americans ...