Sow discord. And exchanges of fire. North korea accuses u. S. Government agencies of sabotaging kim jonguns deal with President Trump and warns that new sanctions may spark a new war of words between the two countries. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour. A stinging rebuke of President Trump and Congressional Republicans from the former fbi director, james comey. He says the president is, quote, lying about the fbi and undermining the rule of law, and that gop lawmakers are enabling him. Ill talk about that and more with congressman David Cicilline of the judiciary committee. And our correspondents, analysts and specialists are also standing by. First, lets go to our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. Manu, comeys remarks followed his second closeddoor appearance in recent days before the house judiciary and oversight committees. What is his message tonight . Yeah, he came out of the closeddoor meeting, blasting t
President trump is now reacting to those indictments that came down from the department of justice yesterday, and he is going after president obama, not the 12 russian intel agents charged with interfering in the 2016 u. S. Election. Yeah, right now, the president s in scotland. And on twitter, ahead of his controversial summit with russian president Vladimir Putin on monday. Now, the president last hour touted that meeting before he apparently hit the links at his golf course. He said i have arrived in scotland and will be at trump turnbury for two days of meetings, calls and hopefully, golf, my primary form of exercise. This weather is beautiful and this place is incredible. Jamie dimon is in moscow, phil black is in glasgow with protests expected, and Matthew Chance is in helsinki, finland. Well start, though, with jeremy in washington. Lets go to scotland with jeremy diamond, instead. Jeremy, lets talk about the president and what hes saying this morning. Reporter yeah, thats right
World. Im rosemary church, and this is cnn newsroom. Saudi arabia is offering its explanation for what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, but many in the International Community are not buying it. In a fox news interview, the Saudi Foreign minister called the journalists death a murder that was a tremendous mistake by a rogue operation. Adele ajuber added Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was not aware beforehand. He called the eldest son to express condolences. Our Nick Robinson joins us now from istanbul with more on all of this. Nick, how likely is it that Jamal Khashoggis body will ever be located . Reporter well, what we are hearing, the latest if you like, from the foreign minister in saudi arabia, is that they dont know where his body is. And as they have the men that turkish investigators would most like to question, the 15 minute turkish investigators say were the hit squad that came from saudi arabia the day Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, it would seem the preponderance of information
Democracy. So, how are these social Media Companies responding . Silicon valley may have done the bear minimum to help the russia investigation. With a look at what all of this means for all of us, here is Senior Correspondent drew griffin. What else can you tell me about these reports . Brooke, weve been reporting on this two years now, the scope of this problem and the russian attempt to drive this dialogue in the u. S. Is astounding. More than 10 million tweets, 116,000 instagram posts, 61,000 facebook posts, 1,000 videos, these are posted by the russian governmentlinked Internet Research agency, all of these. This is the troll group indicted by special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year. The report by cnn shows how the trolls, as a group, regularly tried to coop unsuspecting americans to work for them by holding rallies, staging protests, even handing over their personal information. We have reported some of this before, that the russians were behind various black matters gro
Shelved in the summer of 2016 when he later admitted it went through november 2016. This is what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday. Did donald trump know that Michael Cohen was pursuing the trump tower in moscow into the summer of 2016 . According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to november of 2016. Said he had conversations with him about it. So there, brooke, he says through november of 2016, potentially. Hes referencing those written answers that the president and his legal team submitted to the special counsel, Robert Mueller. And hes not pinning himself down to a timeline, essentially giving himself this broad area to work with, saying they could have gone on through november 2016. Somebody watching at home might say why does it matter if the conversations were happening in january, july or november, but it would be incredibly significant if the president s attorney was still pursuing a deal, real estate deal in moscow throughout june 2016 and keeping t