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CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 June 6, 2017

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This is something that we knew some hints about before the election, that russia had had probing attacks or attacks traced back to russia of voting registration systems, Electoral Systems in arizona and illinois, in florida as well, a contractor there hacked tied to the voting system. The Intel Community never found evidence that russia had changed the votes of the election. This nsa report, which is just dated a couple of weeks ago in may, gives more details about these probing attacks of Electoral Systems. It does not make a conclusion. It does not say that they successfully changed volter tallies. But it does give more details about how many places they were looking to get into these systems. That information in itself is alarming enough. Because it shows that beyond just stealing emails and releasing them, which of course had its own unmeasured affect on the election, that they were looking as to where else they could penetrate the systems. Thats a concern not just looking back to 2016, anderson, but looking forward to 2018 and 2020. Because the one thing i hear consistently from u. S. Intel officials is that russia will target u. S. Elections again. The leaker, a woman whose legal name is reality winter, what do know about her . 25yearold contractor working in augusta, georgia, close to a big nsa facility down there. Really how the authorities found her is interesting. She apparently printed out this classified nsa document. Shared it the intercept says anonymously with them. When that intercept reporter got it, that reporter then showed it to another contractor and said, is this real . That contractor shared it with his bosses, in effect, who looked at it and drew some clues from it. One being a very simple one, that there appeared to be a crease in the image which gave them an indication this had been printed out. They went to look who printed it out. It was a half dozen people in that unit that had printed it out. They were able through some other detective work to trace it back to this 25yearold. We know she faced a court today. Shes got a Court Appointed lawyer. Cnn has spoken to her mother. Shes now facing very serious charges. Jim sciutto, appreciate that. Three days before a prifsh ivot moment. James comey will testify. What he says could shape what happens from here on out. Today the white house said it would not try to stop him. More on that from jessica schneider. Reporter james comeys testimony will proceed unimpeded. President trump will not assert executive privilege regarding james comeys scheduled testimony. Reporter he will speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday before moving into a closed session. For lawmakers the questions about his conversations with the president have been mounting. We want to find out what comey was thinking. If he thought it had risen to that level of obstruction. If it had, why hadnt something been done . Why didnt he act while he was fbi director . Was that concern basically filed away for what purpose . Reporter lawmakers plan to probe his relationship with president trum ap and whether t president urged him to stop the probe into Michael Flynn and flynns ties to russia. The tone, the exact words that were spoken and the context are so important. Thats what we lack right now. We can only get that by talking to those directly involved. Reporter sources say comey kept detailed memos about his interactions with the president , a source close to comeys thinking said comey felt disturbed by his conversations with the president but believed he had the situation mr control. Director of National Intelligence coats and mike rogers will testify wednesday when the Senate Intelligence committee holds a hearing on expiring surveillance powers. The russia investigation will be a focus. Theres a lot of smoke. We have no smoking gun at this point. But theres a lot of smoke. One of the questions that we will have not only for director comey on thursday but on wednesday for director of National Intelligence coats and nsa director admiral rogers, im going to want to ask them, because there are been reports the president also talked to both of them in terms of asking them to downplay the russian investigation. That would be very concerning to me. Reporter Rod Rosenstein is se set to testify. He told members of congress its possible Robert Mueller might expand his probe into the firing of director comey. Last week, rosenstein promised to recuse himself from overs overseeing mueller. Senate intelligence chairman burr says he talked with james comey. Senator burr has talked several times. Burr says he expects comey will speak about his conversations with President Trump but also chairman burr says special counsel mueller has not talked comey from talking about the russia probe. The testimony woucould be broad. Burr and warner have melt with andrew mccabe. They asked him to hand over memos comey kept. Thanks. Joining us is congressman jim himes. The fact President Trump will not exercise his executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying, does that surprise you . Politically, the optics would not have looked good. Yeah. It doesnt surprise me. The people i know, lawyers who know the ins and outs of executive privilege tell me it would be strange to exert it against somebody who is a private citizen. U as you point out, had the white house said that it would have looked very bad. It was interesting. This is the first time ive been involved in this investigation for a while now and had is the first time i can remember the white house actually taking what seems to me to be the right approach, which is lets if theres nothing to hide, lets get all the information out. Lets not stop anybody from testifying. Lets not criticize the people doing the investigation. Im glad that this has taken the turn it has. Of course, getting the specifics of what the president said to jim comey, whether jim comey said he wasnt under vest gas s investigation need to get answered. Looking forward to thursdays testimony. What questions do you hope to have answered and what kind of an impact will it have on your committees investigation, do you think . I think we need to know the specifics of everything that was said by the president to jim comey, not just what may have been attempts to slow down, to impede the investigation. Again, we have the president himself saying that part of the reason that he fired jim comey was because of the pressure of the investigation. It was odd. We got those two or three different explanations for the firing. One of them included the fact that he was that he was bothered by the investigation. We need to know what other pressure may have been put on what else the president may have said and what jim comey said. The president alleges that jim comey said three times that he was not under investigation. We will want to know about that. Obviously, get those memos. It would not surprise me if jim comey memorialized these weird conversations in memorandums. We need to see those. Does the house Intelligence Committee have any interviews scheduled as part of the investigation into russia . Last week, some interviews were scheduled but canceled by adam schi schiff. Thats actually not accurate. Im not quite sure how that story gained momentum. The fact of the matter is the investigation is going very, very well. Mike conaway and adam are working well together. There was a little blip there when there were subpoenaed issued by the chairman, around this whole issue of unmasking. That presumably has nothing to do with i would hope has nothing to do with the russia investigation since the chairman has said he will not involve himself in that investigation. We are proceeding. Were at a point in time in the house investigation right now where we are getting documents and reviewing documents. You dont want to interview witnesses until you have all the documentation so that you can ask informed questions and really be strategic about the order in which you interview witnesses. Obviously, we will work closely with senator warner and senator burr to make sure were not duplicatiing efforts and make sure we have all the information the other committee has. I think its going well. Did you know that chairman nunes could still issue subpoenas . He stepped aside from leading the russia investigation. It surprised people in the public. Do you think he should have that power . Well, this was a Technical Glitch that developed. We all knew about it. Under the rules of the committee, the chairman issues subpoenas. If you are really observing a recusal as he said he would do, you would delegate the authority for russia related subpoenas to mike conaway. You would hope it would be him in conjunction with a democrat. You could have the Committee Vote on subpoenas. Thats not what happened. In fact, devin nunes signed the subpoenas that were russia related. That doesnt look right. And issued other subpoenas that were about the socalled unmasking allegations he has been making for a while. I hope when we get back that we can come to a cleaner way of some combination of mike and adam doing the work to issue the subpoenas. Congressman, thanks very much. The string of president ial tre tweets that have ignited a controversy. You wouldnt put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day . Aleve, live whole not part. Tell you what, ill give it to you for half off. The whole country booking on Choice Hotels. Com. Four words, badda book. Badda boom. Let it sink in. Shouldnt we say we have the lowest price . Nope, badda book. Badda boom. 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Reporter with london still reeling from a terrorist attack, the white house is defending President Trumps stinging tweet slamming the mayor. Asked about the president s tweet, seven dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and mayor of london says theres no reason to be alarmed. The point is there is a reason to be alarmed. Reporter Sarah Sanders insisted the president did not intentionally mischaracterize the mayors response to the attack. I dont think thats actually true. I think the media wants to spin it that way. Reporter listen to the context. The mayor was urging londoners not to be alarmed about beefed up security after the attack. Londoners will see an increased Police Presence today and over the course of the next few daze. No reason to be alarmed. Reporter in his response to london, the president renewed his pitch for a ban on travellers coming in from six majority muslim countries, the same ban tied up in courts. Justice department should ask for an expedited hearing of the travel ban before the Supreme Court and seek tougher version the president tweeted adding people the lawyers and courts can call it whatever they want, but im calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban. The president s use of the term travel ban directly contradicts his own aides. This is not a muslim ban. Its not a travel ban. Its a vetting system to keep america safe. From that podium sean spicer said its not a travel ban. Is it a travel ban . I dont think the president cares what you call it. The bottom line is, he is trying to protect the citizens of this country, the danger is extremely clear. Reporter Top White House officials insist the media are too focused on the president s tweets. This obsession with covering everything he said on twitter and little of what he does as president reporter Kellyanne Conways own husband who is under consideration to become solicitor general, said the tweets may jeopardize the administrations push for the ban. They make some people feel better he tweeted. But they certainly wont help the solicitor general get five votes in the Supreme Court, which is what actually matters. Sad. Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. Lets get perspective from dana bash and david gergen. The idea that the American Public should discount the president of the United Statess own words shared directly on social media in favor of spin from his staffers making the morning show rounds seems ridiculous, particularly in light of the fact that for months they have been extolling the virtues of his direct access to the American People, extolling the virtue of his ability to tweet. Absolutely. I dont know about you, but do you have the sense the president is becoming more irrational in his tweeting . Sort of busting loose whenever he can . This was all about infrastructure and he is not tweeting about that. Exactly. Threatening his own case before the Supreme Court. Thats perhaps the most serious part of this by the tweets on the travel ban. He is disagreeing not only with his aides, representatives from Justice Department who are arguing the president s case in court. They have been arguing to the courts that this is a pause in order to strengthen the vetting process and not a travel ban. For the president to come in this way only weakens his case. He has lost doing this once before. We have seen this before. The other thing, anderson, i do think that its not helping his reputation around the world and not helping americas reputation, frankly. To pick a gratuitous fight with the mayor of london. Nobody got into a fight or picked a fight with Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of new york after 9 11. Exactly. What we should be doing is rallying and unifying the western nations in the fight against terrorism. We have do this together. Yeah. Dana, had the president of pakistan attacked rudy geiulian after 9 11 or the Prime Minister of great britain. It would be Huge National outrage in the United States. As it would have been. No question about it. The president made a mistake. He misheard or misunderstood what he was watching on Cable Television in the morning from the london mayor. The london mayor was very clearly not saying people should not be worried about terrorists. He was saying, virtually the same kind of thing that Rudy Giuliani said after 9 11, which is we are going to have increased Police Presence when we saw in new york and around the c

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