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CNNW CNN Newsroom Live July 17, 2017

She is often seen in public, but rarely heard. Prince charless wife, camilla, speaks to cnn just ahead of her 70th birthday. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im george howell. Im rosemary church. This is cnn newsroom. It starts right now. U. S. President trump reaches a big milestone this week marking six months in office. But allegations of russian meddling in last years election continue to overshadow his administration. Take a look at this New Washington post abc news poll. If you listen to this, majority of americans say they believe that russia tried to inflew enthe race the president s popularis also plummeted in that poll. He has the worst approval of any u. S. President in about 70 years. 42 of americans did approve of the job. That is now at 36 . His disApproval Rating, 58 . President trump defend himself saying it is not that bad. He also defended his sons meeting with a russian lawyer. Saying Hillary Clinton can illegally get debate question answers leak 33,000 emails but his son is scorned by the fake news media. The president s attorney said sunday there was nothing illegal about donald trump jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer. And he suggested the secret service vetted it. Everybody thats looking backwards and saying, whatta shoulda coulda and donald trump said he would have done things differently. But to go back a year later and say this is what should have happened when the meeting was 20 minutes and a series of meetings that took place for day answers day answers months, i dont think thats fair to donald trump jr. , to Jared Kushner or manafort for that matter, because no one was in a situation of that kind of campaigning in the middle after president ial election. Theres a lot of meetings and a lot of discussions about Opposition Research on all sides. Republicaning with democratic and eindependent. You said no law was broken. But do you take what the president said about the fbi whaen should have happened there. A situation where you have representatives after Foreign Government offering assistance to in an election that what should have happened is that fbi should have been notified . I wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service let the people in . The president had security at the time. The secret service pushed back saying the agency would not have screened the people at that meeting, thats because it was not protecting mr. Trumps son at that time. President trumps attorney defends the russian lawyer meeting a majority of americans polled saying it was inappropriate. Now Top Republican as well as top democratic lawmakers want answers. Cnn has this report for us. Reporter we are hearing reaction from the American People for the First Time Since the story broke about a meeting between donald trump jr. And a pair of russian, one a lobbyist and another tern attorney. Promising information about Hillary Clinton from the russian government. The abc poll shows 63 disapprove of the meeting saying it was inappropriate to have that meeting last june. This is not going to go away soon. You just mentioned the president s historically low Approval Rating. As we learn more details about this russia investigation it is likely to continue to hamper the administration. We havent heard the endrussia story yet. Just today two senators on both sides of the aisle were on state of the union with jake tapper saying they want donald trump jr. Before the Senate Intelligence committee to testify under oath about what happened in that meeting and why he took it in the first place. Listen. I would like to hear from all of these individuals whether we will be able to get the russian nationals to come over and testify is an open question. But those people that our committee has jurisdiction over, the americans, i sure as heck want to talk to all of them. We need to get to the bottom of this. But loonly way we will do it iso talk to donald trump jr. , and i give credit, but to everyone at that meeting and involved in setting up that meeting. That may be difficult in the case of the russian nationals but we certainly ought to try. We should also ask for all documents, and not just emails that have been released, but all of the documents that are related to any context that the president Trumps Campaign had with the russian government or its them sayrerys. As perhaps some of the others in that meeting, it is not exactly clear, both senators say that there are still many documents to gather beforehand, that they can host these three individuals in front of the Senate Intelligence committee. For his part, the president is spending the rest of the weekend here in new jersey before heading back to washington, d. C. Tonight. Still with this cloud of the Russian Investigation hanging over the white house. Joining me now to talk more about this is cnn political commentator and conservative ben furgason. Thanks so much for being with us. Good to be with you. I do want it start with the secret service pushing back on president trumps lawyer said, on why he allowed donald trump jr. To meet with a russian lawyer, russian lobbyist and of course the top members of the Trump Campaign last summer. If there was anything nefarious, he said, in that meeting, surely they would have picked it up. But it turns out that jum trump junior didnt have secret Service Protection at that particular time. He wasnt in their charge. Whats your reaction to that . I think the point that he was trying to make is that if this meeting was such a bad idea then why didnt someone flag it . For example, why did the lawyer get clearance that actually came under the Obama Administration to have a visa wavered or patrol wavered to get into the country after being denied the first time. Obviously we found out from the secret service that the only person under protection at that point in the campaign was actually donald trump. Not his son. But they did say that anyone that came into the meeting or into the building to meet with them did go through metal deo t detectors and make sure they didnt have weapons on them. I get the point they are trying to make. Maybe check to see if the secret service did look at meetings. But the whole campaign was heavily guarded. I dont think it was any malice or trying to misrepresent or unfair intent with that answer. All right. I do want to, you know, talk to you about why donald trump jr. s account of the 2016 meeting keeps changing. Yeah. Because thats confusing, isnt it . Why not reveal everything . And then you dont start having these sorts of problems. Look, ive always said this. It is really hard, if youve ever worked on a campaign. I have worked on president ial campaigns. Theres a lot of people that ive met with that i dont remember. When you after you win the nomination, you are that high up in the campaign structure, as he was, theres a lot of details you will forget because your days are 13, 14, 5, 16, 17hour days. You are meeting with people you have never met or heard of before or knew existed before because you are new to politics and you won the nomination. I think hindsight is 20 20. Donald trump j donald trump j neer needs to si down with people who can jog his memory and move forward. A lot of people look, campaigns are hectic and exhausting. There are reasons that candidates have a body man that look at him and say youre in erie, pennsylvania or paducah, kentucky because you dont know where you are many days. Thats part of the fog of a campaign and exhaustion of a campaign. All right. Do want to move to the president s Approval Rating now. Appears it dropped as low as 36 . According to the abc and Washington Post poll. Which has to be said, is a reliable poll. Even though the president said it isnt. He is trying to give it a ps spin. Rounding up to 40 . Thats an great Approval Rating at this juncture, is it . No, its not. But i also think there has been so much press thats been on this russian topic month after month after month. The press they is have receive owed not an issue like this, to be above 40 , im not concerned about it. If i was around the president , the white house as one of his senior advisers, i wouldnt pay allot of attention to it right now. You have several over year, even to mid term election answers you have what, three years basically until you run for reelection. Get some things on the board, Obamacare Repeal replace is a good plate to start. I think this will be a nonissue four, five months from now. You mentioned the health bill issue. This so problem for administration. Yeah, but this pause or deferment for another week has nothing to do with the bill and everything to do with the fact that you will always have a very close and tight vote. Republicans have a very slim margin in the senate. Some republicans like susan collins, flip a coin if they are on your team or not, when you go to any vote. Theyve had seven years. Theyve had seven years to come up with an alternative. Those that ran for election ran on repealing obamacare. It has been a complicated thing to undo. It has been a around for a very long time. You have disagreements on things. I think after john mccain comes back, he had an emergency surgery. They postpone until he comes back. I believe, based on people i talked to on capitol hill, they will have the votes to get this thing done. How can you be sure of that . Numbers dont look great at this point. Look, everyone will say the numbers dont look great. They never look great when have you a slim majority. They are tight. You can only lose a couple of people. But the same was to be said in the house side as well. And they got it kun. Republican senators realize they were sent to washington to repeal and replace obamacare. If they dont, itll be hard for them to come back to their constituents and say send me back to washington again because i did what i said i would dot first time. It is a tight vote. I think this time they realize after pausing the first time that they are going to, you know, get it done. And i think they will. Ben furgason, always good to talk with you. Thanks for your perspective on this. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. With clouds of the Russian Investigation swirling above them, it is still a critical week for the white house and future of the new Health Care Bill in the u. S. That revised republican plan is running into a series of unexpected delays. Mitch mcconnell pushed back a vote on the bill scheduled for this week. So that senator john mccain can recover from surgery from a blood clot. The delay will also give mcconnell extra time to find the needed votes to pass that plan. Cnn has also learned the Congressional Budget Office will not release a muchanticipated score on the bill monday. It is now unclear when the cbo score will be released. Republican lawmakers show how deep the divisions are over this new bill. This bill actually, i think, has gotten much better as a result of the discussions weve had amongst ourselves. There are other choices rather than obamacare. There are 8 to 10 republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill. So at end of the day, i dont know whether we will pass. We promised voters for four elections. They elected us to repeal obamacare and now we will keep most taxes, keeb regs, keep subsidy answers create a giant bailout superfund for insurance companies. I just dont see it. 50 of 52 republican senators would need to vote yes for any senate Health Care Bill to pass. And iran sentenced an american citizen to ten years in prison. The graduate student was con victimed of spying under the cover of research. U. S. State department accused teheran of making up charges to detain americans. This comes as the deadline looms for the Trump Administration to recertify the iran nuclear deal. On monday, u. S. Officials meet to Tell Congress whether iran is complying with the agreement and whether the country should continue to get relief from sanctions. On to venezuela now. Opposition there is claiming victory and a symbolic and unofficial referendum on that nations president. Opposition leaders say about 9 wil 98 of those who voted rejected the plans to rewrite the constitution. Earlier we spoke with journalist from caracas. Venezuelans voted today. 6. 5 million inside venezuela and about 700,000 venezuelans abroad. Thats a huge turnout for opposition who is claiming victory in these nonbinding referendum against the proposals for a constitution of president maduro. So part day has gone on quite peacefully and quietly. Of the seats have been able to record the votes in a rather way and in a small incident, one person was killed by clashes between two different main parties. Government and opposition. But again, after more than three months of social unrest and more than 90 people who have been here so far in venezuela, people are still taking the streets and today we have learned that about. 2 milli. 7. 2 million of them were able to vote for a new constitution by nicholas modura. That report from stefa stefano pozzebon. Thank you. And banning the former president of mexico, vicente fox, from ever coming back to venezuela. Fox and other president s from latinamerica were there supporting that referendum. This is cnn newsroom. Ahead, we hear from some of the isis wives of raqqa. 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They want your pity and that you believe them when they say it was all, all of it, a huge mistake. They use women for sex. Yes. It is very disgusting. Three indonesian sisters say they paid thousands of dollars to get here, lured by the promise of Free Health Care and schools. But ended up selling their jewelry and sneaking out. It wasnt what they expected. [ inaudible ] i heard that if a daughter gets thousands of dollars. Single women arrivals like them kept in commune while they look for husbands. Women inside the dorm is very different. Very far from islam. Harsh men are gossiping, shout each other. Fighting. And fighting between the woman. And oh, i was very surprised when i say that. She explains the dorm is a bit like tender. When the woman arrives in this dormatory, she makes cv. Puts downer age, name, personality, what she looks for in a man. And man posts their cvs. Trance y translator yes, it is dat g dating. You talk for 15 oor 20 minutes. If you agree you get married. It is very quick. Her husband died the second time they tried to flee. She just wants to go back to france. I love life. I love to work. I love my jeans. I love my makeup. I love my parents. Only thing i want is to go back. Im not far from the beach. I used to go to the beach every weekend, in a bikini. Yes, in a bikini. A syrian english teacher whose first husband was killed by a sniper. She was traveling to turkey. She met and married a moroccan. Were you looking for a man in raqqa . No. How

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