The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. Fierce once again. Ana. Thank you, dan, for that report. The weather he talked about is crucial here. The fires they create their own weather systems. And video from the ground can help us show just how deadly and dangerous this fire has become. Its hard to explain just how large its gotten. And this might help. The video was recorded today by a passenger on a flight from sacramento to seattle. That is not a cloud there. That is a plume of smoke. Cnn meteorologist is joining us from headquarters. Help us understand how large and how powerful this inferno is. Well, ana any time you have a fire whats going to happen is its creating its own localized weather environment. And this is a big, big challenge. You showed that picture or the video a secretary ago. But i want to drill into the picture. Because you can see the Towers Clouds from the plane. Okay so the plane flies around 30,000 feet. You can see the clouds much the
same way you would see a Thunderstorm Develop as the heat from these fires just continues to rise upwards. We are talking about large area impacted, nearly 90 fires 90 large fierps across the a good part of the western part of the United States and you see the shading here underneath the fire symbols of orange and red. Those are areas in severe or exceptionally drought. The perfect conditions. Dry conditions, unlike last fall when we had the Santa Barbara fires they were fueled by the sanitia ana winds. And we have heat fueling these. The heat adviser ris stretch stretch to Section Attention of oregon and southern washington state. While they are not dealing with triple digits in portland and seattle, 90, 91 is hotter than normal. Skromt, fresno and done to vegas. Dan mentioned the wind. The Wind Forecast we are looking at doesnt look that extreme. But part of the challenge is these fires are creating their own wind environments. So Whats Going On is the Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning in and around the carr fire which is very unusual to put it in just a localized area because they say the wind produced by the fires themselves will help cause the fires to spread. And add one more factor to this. Air quality is dropping. A bunch of air quality alerts are in effect for southern sections of oregon and most of the Sand Jauquin Valley because of the problems. We showed you earlier some of the fantastic video of what people describe as a fire nado. There is a way we can describe and explain how that happens and how we get Something Like a fire nado. We are going to go to the 3ds elements and show you the factors. Whenever you have a fire occurring well you are going to allow the heat to rise rapidly. Thats what you saw from the plane, the clouds from the heat rising quickly. But when you have heat at the ground and the fire at the ground, the air around it rushes in to fill in the vacuum. Thats helping to create the fire nados as they spin around they whipping up wind causing winds to increase. We saw the Red Flag Warning in effect. Thats one of the factors. The other thing this these fire nados is do is create more fires. How . When you have a regular tornado you throw debris like the pieces of houses or trees around. When you have a fire nado we are talking about the embers from the fire are then being spread out and spewed all over causing new fires. Ana its a situation thats not Getting Better any time soon because we are talking about more and more days of triple digit heat and, again, the dry conditions that existed before. Those high temperatures dry out the dead vegetation around. And all of the brush making them
great tinder for new fires. That fire nado so interesting. Do does not sound good. Thank you, gene for laying it out for us. Ahead in the newsroom just reported cohen is willing to tell mueller that trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower Meeting back in 2016. But that was two years ago. Next a look back at the infamous meeting at the center of the case. And talk about awkward, two people at the center of the russia probe Robert Mueller and donald trump junior just feet from each other at the airport. Details neck. Live in the cnn newsroom. My mom washes the dishes. Before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do . New Cascade Platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuckon foods, the first time. Wow, thats clean new Cascade Platinum. A hotel can make or break a trip. And at expedia, we dont think you should be rushed into booking one. Thats why we created expedias addon advantage. 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In the email he told trump junior he had information from russia that could incriminate Hillary Clinton and help his campaign. He told trump junior that the information was part of the russian government effort to help trump win. Trump junior responded with the infamous line. If its what you say i love it, especially later in the summer. The two decided to meet six days later at trump tower. Well get to that meeting in a second. But look at kwhapd in the days between that email about clinton dirt and the meeting itself. Donald trump still then a candidate publicly promised to make a major speech in the days ahead in which Efld Reveal Dirt on his opponent Hillary Clinton. Here he is. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and were going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think youll find it very informative and very interesting. That speech never happened. And here is what we know about what went down at the meeting two days later on friday, june the 9th. Trump june we are was paul manafort, Trumps Campaign manager. Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner was there. You remember rob goldstein, the producer who first informed with the dirt. Nalgtsia veselnitskaya. A russian lawyer who admits to being a kremlin informant. She doesnt likely act without Vladimir Putins permission more at least without telling him. Now the rest of the russians include, a lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence offers and a representative for a Russian Pop Star Working With Rob Gold Stone Plus a translators. Its unchlorif anything came of the meeting. Both sides said nothing did process but either way it was secret. The public didnt find out until a year later. Thats when the New York Times published the Bombshell Report about the original emails between gold stone and trump junior. It was the first Concrete Evidence that the Trump Campaign was at the very least willing to accept help from russia. Trump junior responded peeled by issuing a series of misleading and shifting statements. First he said the meeting was simply about adoptions before eventually admitting that he had accepted the meeting after being
offered information on clinton. Reports soon surfaced that the president was personally involved in crafting his sons misleading statements. However, both white house staff and President Trumps attorneys denied this. I do want to be clear the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. It came from donald trump junior. He certainly didnt dictate but he like i said he weighed in offered suggestion like any father would do. What you just heard there turned out to be untrue because just a couple of months ago trumps attorneys actually admitted that he did dictate his sons misleading statement. In a confidential letter to special counsel Robert Mueller trumps attorneys wrote, quote, you have received all of the notes communications and testimony indicating that the president dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son donald trump junior. The question now, will all of the other denials from trumps
attorneys like this one this is not a situation where the president was involved in this meeting was not aware of the meeting did not attend the meeting. And he didnt know about meeting until a if you days ago. Yes, thats correct. Will that end up being untruthful as well . Its something Robert Mueller is looking into. And here to talk more about this is former federal prosecutor Glenn Kurschner and Deputy Managing Editor for the weekly standard. Kelly jane torrance. Otto someone is lying. Who do you think has more credibility. As i was listening to you, ana, i studied philosophy. This seems like a pop philosophy question. Thinking about giuliani saying that Michael Cohen is a liar and he has always been a liar. Well if Michael Cohen said a at one point is he a liar and when was he a liar . Who can tell. I have to say neither of the people is particularly
believable. I mean donald trump has as you pointed out first said he did not dictate the statement then later when it got to you know talking to Robert Mueller and probably worried about eventually committing perjury said he did. And so we dont know. But i have to say Michael Cohen the interesting thing is Michael Cohen let this slip but he also told cnn from what i read that he doesnt actually have proof of this. And in this case you do kind of want a smoking gun with something this seriou. But, again, who knows maybe Donald Trumps lawyers will talk to Robert Mueller and will have something come out. Its quite amazing. But i think on the whole though, the fact that we knew his son was in on the meeting, knew about it ahead of time, whether or not donald trump knew, someone very close to him knew. And surprisingly the public does not seem to be too worried about that. Cnns reporting is that he doesnt necessarily have a tape to corroborate his story. But there were several others who he says were in the room with donald trump when donald trump was informed about this
upcoming meeting at the time in 2006. Cohen by the way has testified before the House Intelligence Committee last year he was asked what trump knew. And when he knew it. Congressman Eric Swalwell is one of the lawmakers who questioned cohen. And i talked to him earlier this afternoon. Listen to what he told me. Did you walk away with the impression that trump had knowledge of that Trump Tower Meeting. Yes. And that wasnt only because of Michael Cohens testimony. There was so much other evidence that we had from the fact that the family that set it up, the its inskefable that he would not have known that they put the request. Two donald trump was one floor above at the time the meeting took place. Three donald trump is very close from when what we learned to donald trump junior and talked every day about the smallest details of the campaign and then of course there is the coverup behavior. Once this meeting was exposed a year later, donald trump
dictated to his son the inaccurate statement that donald trump junior gave the media so glenn, do you think the Circumstantial Evidence is there . Yeah, ana, i think the Circumstantial Evidence is really pretty powerful. And i dont think its all that surprising that Michael Cohen would now at least its being reported ke provide information that donald trump knew about the Trump Tower Meeting beforehand. And you have already laid out a pretty compelling time line that only makes sense if donald trump knew about the meeting. But let me use another example to kind of drill down on why i think its clear that the information being provided by Michael Cohen is credible. You know, what we tell jurors when we argue in court is, you know, you dont check your common sense at the door. You bring it with you into the jury box. And frngly its the most powerful tool you have to evaluate who is telling the truth and what evidence is credible. Now, lets take a look at the
june 3rd email string. Because only one of two things can be true. Either when donald trump junior was told, hey, guess what, russia is in your fathers corner, russia the russian government wants your father to win, and russia can provide incriminating information about hillary. Well if that was a revelation to don jr. What does human nature tell News Don Junior would have sprinted into his office. Dad, dad big news guess what russia is in your corner and theyre going to provide us helpful information that will incriminate Hillary Clinton. So i think human nature tells us that is the common response if you dont know russia is no your corner. However if he declined to tell his father, what can we infer from that using common sense, that he already knew russia was in his fathers corner. So there was no need to run and broadcast that information to his father. Either way, when we apply the common sense test to these facts, it seems entirely consistent with what we know. Kelly kfl jane i should say, the trump team is trying to paint cohen as a liar. They think that should help their defense. As someone who cant be trusted if thats the case, do you think there is a risk taufl in making cohen an enemy. Well, i if that day is coming it might have already passed. I have to be honest i was worning if theyre holding out hope because notice that donald trump that is not given Michael Cohen a catchy nickname. We all remember when the split with steve bannon came. Donald trump tweeted and called him sloppy steve. Im joking a little bit here but not entirely. I think thats sort of Donald Trumps mo and we have not seen that yet. The thing is to be honest i think they have a very good case that Michael Cohen is not credible. I mean if he if its the case of if what he is saying now is true then he lied before. But at the same time Michael Cohen we have known for years that this guy is a shady character. I mean, thats one of the reasons the fbi raided his offices is theyre looking into some of his shading dealings with things like taxi cab medal yns for for example. Donald trump claims he hires the best people. Well Michael Cohen went to what some people have called the Worst Law School in america. He yelled at reporters threatened reporters in the past. Thats on tape we have that. Exactly. Exactly. This is not the best people. In a way they might have a good case here. But at the same time what does that tell you about the guy who hired him and stood by him and called him a wonderful man on twitter just a few months