From cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I am george howell. I am natalie allen. Newsroom starts right now. This story dates back to the trump transition. Jared kushner reportedly tried to set up a back channel with moscow so conversations couldnt be monitored by u. S. Intelligence agencies. The Washington Post reports that kushner, top adviser to President Trump and his soninlaw brought up the possibility of secret Communications Last december with the Russian Ambassador. Cnns Jessica Schneider fills us in. Reporter new reporting the president s soninlaw and top adviser Jared Kushner proposed setting up secret methods of communication with the kremlin back in december. The Washington Post first reported this. Now New York Times is adding the back channel of communication was meant to discuss strategy in syria and other policy issues. U. S. Officials briefed on intelligence reports told the post that the Intelligence Community picked up these details when the Russian Ambassador reached out to superiors in moscow. During a meeting in december, the post reported that kislyak said kushner suggested using russian diplomatic facilities in the u. S. To correspond directly with the kremlin opposed to the state Department Setting up a secure communication which is usually typical. The post and New York Times report this meeting between kushner and kislyak was also attended by michael flynn, form. They wanted this to avoid intelligence that listens to foreign phone calls. No one from the white house is responding to the report and neither kushner nor his lawyers are putting out any statements. Jessica schneider, cnn, washington. Thank you for that reporting. Lets get more reporting from Claire Sebastian live from the capital. This is a big story in the United States, but again, what is it playing there, is it a big story there as well or is this kind of swept under the rug . Reporter it is getting some attention, some wires kind of retold the Washington Post story. Official reaction when we reached out to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on the story reported by the Washington Post about whether Jared Kushner had asked the Russian Ambassador to set up a secure channel of communication, she replied with the phrase mccarthyism or just political squabbles, that was the original response, whether or not the ministry was aware of the request to the ambassador back during the transition and would not be drawn on that. Said if we want to know more about Jared Kushners business or political dealings, turning our attention to the middle east, a reference to recent deal with saudi arabia to invest in u. S. Infrastructure through the black stone group, Investment Group that Jared Kushner has dealings with in previous role as head of kushner companies, a Real Estate Development group. This is along the lines of rhetoric we have seen recently in the past few months to paint this as internal political chaos in washington to say that russia is being used as a tool by trumps opponents to hurt his administration and to try and deflect this. Theyre very much aware how toxic this issue is for trump. Another meeting in question of note, this meeting with the head of the sanctioned Russian Development bank that has close ties to the kremlin. What more can you tell us about that player . Reporter well, this is another meeting that happened during the transition apparently on the initiative of Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , with gorkov, the head of a Development Bank in russia, not a commercial bank, has been under u. S. Sanction since july, 2014. Ukraine related sanctions. The interesting thing about this meeting was the conflicting reports that came out about it. The white house saying this was a meeting with kushner in his capacity as adviser to then president elect, a conduit. The russian side saying this was a business meeting, part of a road show they were doing in the u. S. There are still a lot of questions surrounding that, not illegal to talk to a bank under sanctions but no business could have been done with it. Clare sebastian in moscow. Thank you for that insight. And Jared Kushner has been traveling with President Trump, it is the last day of the president s foreign tour with another round of talks at the g7 summit. Nic robertson is covering this and joins us live. Interesting with the new president and no one there quite sure what they were dealing with perhaps, unconventional to say the least, where had been the commonalities, where had they made steps forward on fighting isis is one all of them are concerned about. Reporter yes, sure, theres commonality on terrorism but seems to be disagreement on trade and climate, not an agreement, from the meeting with theresa may, putting pressure on tech companies, social media platforms to cut down, remove jihadi content, it is seen as inspiring and recruiting young people to join groups like isis. It was interesting listening to the italian Prime Minister as he was talking about talks today and he said, i was very struck by this, he said you know, it is important that we have formal negotiations the hope of reaching concrete agreement. He seemed to imply so far the talks havent been formal and that they havent been able to reach a lot of agreement. Indications are normally after a g7 you may have an agreed document, 20, 30 pages long. What were understanding at the moment, the agreement might just total a few pages rather than substantive aspiration to the Italian Government who are hosting this, natalie. He traveled to several countries on this, his first foreign trip, nic. We really havent heard from him whatsoever. How is that going across . Reporter you know, there have been brief moments when he spoke at nato headquarters and quite surprised everyone there by not sort of embracing the core principle, article 5, attacking one is attack against all which came into play after september 11, the first time article 5 was in voeehicled whe all nato allies supported the United States. He didnt embrace that. That was a surprise. Which commentary about how wonderful the trip had been in saudi arabia, how he had been hosted so well by the saudi king salman. But theres no opportunity on his trip here, and this is unusual for a trip of this length, this magnitude, at least the way they described it, this importance, that he is not holding a press conference. Thats unusual even after a g7 meeting. Theresa may was on record, the german chancellor, but no chance for journalists to question and talk to donald trump about what he has taken away from this visit, what hes learned. We are hearing from some of his advisers, chief economic adviser, National Security adviser on the record, but thats not the same as asking the questions. Sometimes statements are a little contradictory, natalie. There are a lot of questions about this trip, of course. He would be getting questions about whats going on back at home as well within his administration. Well wait and see if he has any parting remarks. Nic robertson covering it live insist lee. Thanks, nic. For more, bring in brian class, fellow of compared politics at the London School of economics. Brian, a pleasure to have you with us. 10 09 in london. Whats the lasting impression the u. S. President left on World Leaders there in cicely from your point of view z. From an optical point of view was a disaster the way it was viewed by allies in the nato community. Trump was seen smiling and dancing with swords with the saudis, saying were not going to lecture you on human rights and went and lectured our closest allies on nato, rather than encouraging them to spend more on defense, he chastised publicly, an astonishing move to publicly rebuick allies that have the United States back on the global stage and it is not playing well in europe at all. There were a couple of instances where theres video of the president pushing through to be in position with World Leaders and also some hand shakes that have gotten played on social media. Again, these are optics that come out of this trip. What do you make of it . The optics matter, theyre an important diplomatic signal. Anyone looking at the trip sees trump smiling and dancing with saudi arabia royal family, one of the most brutal, barbaric regimes on the planet, skoulg and shoving nato allies. It is not the optics you want and sends an important signal that ties back to trumps problems at home. Sewi sewing division is one of the most important things for putins regime. They want to splinter. When you have lecturing democratic allies in brussels, this is a dream come true for putin. It ties this story back home that wont go away about trumps ties to russia and ongoing investigations. Leads me to the other question about russia. This administration was hoping to turn a corner from the controversies brewing in the states. Now there are more questions as mr. Trump returns and theyre going to Great Lengths to avoid questions from journalists. This story is rotten to the core. Jared kushner shouldnt have been in any of these meetings in the first place, he is an unqualified real estate developer, everyone knows he wouldnt be in those meetings if he wasnt married to trumps daughter. Once he did the meetings, tried to establish a secret back channel to russia and lied about it, trump fired the fbi director who is investigating his soninlaw. This is beyond partisan debates. People that are defending as normal behavior are deluding themselves, this is not normal behavior for a president to do. If you want to discuss syria with another foreign power, you can do it openly, dont have to do it secretly, dont need to lie about it, fail to disclose it on security forms. People need to take stock of this, say do we want to defend this behavior, it is rotten, theres something to it, needs to be investigate rapidly. Either the president s chief adviser, one of his main advisers is compromised or has dubious dealings, either way it is a catch twenty two, and terrible news for the United States and its people. International diplomatic editor Nic Robertson a few minutes ago talked about the lack of agreement, a concrete agreement out of g7 there are so many issues that were focus. Climate change one of them. One question still remains, whether the u. S. President will back out of the paris climate accord. How significant could that impact be on that agreement . It would be enormous. Any sort of major Environmental International pact requires the u. S. And china to be involved to have any meaning. It would be a massive symbolic move, take teeth out of the agreement. As we see more according to g7, whats going to emerge as a narrative, accurate one i would suggest, it is likely going to be 6 versus 1 with trump being one on issues related to environment and trade. This is a problem. If the g7 is a core leader on the global stage of agenda for the west, when that group splin ters, it is harder for American Interest to be served with allies abroad. Brian class from london. 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British officials are scrambling, trying to uncover a network they say is behind the Manchester Concert attack. They just arrested two more people and say 11 men are now in custody. Meantime, olympian militia detained the father and brother of the attacker, says the brother confessed to being in isis with the bomber and to speaking with him by phone, 15 minutes before mondays blast. Muhammad leyland joins us with the latest on the investigation and standing in front of this beautiful memorial as people there continue to remember the victims. Hello. Reporter good morning, natalie. Youre absolutely right. It has been raining this morning and people are still literally standing out in the pouring rain to come to the vigil and pay respects. Police describe it as a fast moving investigation, raids continue in central manchester. Police arrested two more men. That brings total number of people in custody to 11. They carried out an explosion, not sure if they found an in send ari device. This is an international investigation. Big part focusing on the suspects time spent in libya, believed he spent almost a month there before returning to manchester. Theres a Libyan Militia Group in tripoli. Libya is awash with militants since the regime change. They say it arrested the suspects brother, under interrogation, suspects brother admitted he was aware of the plot, in manchester helping his brother prepare the plot, that his brother phoned him 15 minutes before the attack took place. One of the criticisms of that kind of information, it was obtained under interrogation. In libya with many militia groups, it is unclear what that entailed. If it entailed torture or forced coercion, some of the information may not be considered reliable. One of the first things investigators in manchester want to do is to be able to speak to that person in libya who is currently, believed to be currently in custody now to get as much firsthand information as possible. Meantime, this of course happened at the end of Ariana Grande concert, she did send out a tweet how broken she was. Now shes had Something Else to say. What can you tell us . Reporter well, thats right. If you remember right after the concert, Ariana Grande said that she was heartbroken, she flew immediately back to the United States, put some of her other concerts on hold. Shes broken her silence with an emotional, powerful statement. Want to read one excerpt where she says our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we ever did before. That was just part of her response. Im sure she has been quite changed and moved by this. We thank you. For more, heres george. For more on the bomber, salman abedi and his ties to libya, Jomana Karadsheh has more. What more do we know about the investigation . Reporter what we know is from family and friends in tripoli and from special Deterrent Force, one of the main, powerful groups that is nominally under control of the ministry. Following the attack on manchester, they detained two mums members, the father, ramadan abedi, and younger brother, hashim. They brought in two siblings and mother of the bomber and questioned them, but released them. The main information were hearing from the special Deterrent Force comes from 20yearold hashim abedi, saying that he has provided them with information. We dont know the circumstances under which this alleged confession took place. Says he and his brother were members of isis, that hashim abedi was planning to carry out attack in tripoli, he was in United Kingdom with his brother in what they describe as planning phase for that attack. And they say that salman called his brother hashim in libya 15 minutes before carrying out the attack in manchester but we do not know the details of that phone call but they say hashim knew of his brothers movements, knew he was planning something, but he did not know details when and where that attack would take place. Why the brothers were in libya in the first place, learning from family and friends, say their father ramadan who returned to tripoli following the overthrow of gadhafi in the revolution in 2011, he was concerned his sons were getting into some sort of trouble, Gang Violence back in manchester. So in april he brought them back to libya. He confiscated their passports to make sure they dont go back to manchester, but according to the special Deterrent Force, according to family friends, salman deceived his family, told them he wanted to go to saudi arabia to perform the umrah pilgrimage,