New york. With that family next hour, you will hear more from ten incredible young people all of whom lost their fathers on that day 15 years ago. We continue on this friday. Youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. In just a couple of minutes we will see major developments in the race for the presidency here. Soon donald trump will be speaking to whats called the Values Voters Summit. Rnc chair Reince Priebus speaking there now in the wake of a major outcry over his appearance on russian tv. We will explain that in a moment. Hillary clinton is gathering top National Bipartisan minds to tackle isis this afternoon. Lets get straight to our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta who is following trump at that event in washington. But first to our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny in new york at the Historical Society covering this National Security meeting with secretary clinton, i understand we just got some video from inside. You want to tell me whats going on. We did indeed, brooke. We are seeing pictures here as you can see. Secretary clinton taking her seat with a Bipartisan Group of National Security experts. Interestingly when you look at this roll call of people on the list, some names that are very familiar in this arena. David petraeus. Of course who was the architect of the iraq surge back in 2007. The former Homeland Security chief during the bush administration, michael chertoff. Also around that table. Democrats as well. But the Clinton Campaign is trying to make the case here that she would be a commander in chief. She would be someone who works across the aisle, reaches across the aisle. Its been the theme of the week here, and it really is an argument again shes trying to make against donald trump that she is the candidate with experience and judgment here to deal in these times of crisis and moments of crisis. President ial campaigns particularly in this phase of them with 60 days to go, today, brooke, also become a reallife moment to react to whats happening in the news and of course today, north korea is first and foremost on everyones mind. We have just gotten a statement from the Clinton Campaign and it says this. Lets look. North koreas decision to conduct another nuclear test is outrageous and unacceptable, Hillary Clinton says. She says, this is another reminder that america must elect a president who can confront the threats we face with steadiness and strength. So, brooke, certainly the events of 9 11 also will be discussed in that room, the current threats facing the country here as we near the 15th anniversary on sunday, as well as more recent threats from that nuclear test overnight in north korea. Brooke . Jeff, thank you. Im sure, jim acosta, im sure donald trump, a new yorker, may address the 15th anniversary of 9 11 as well. But do we anticipate him also addressing his comments on the most recent Tv Appearance . Well, anything is possible when donald trump takes the stage, brooke, as you know that. Donald trump was in cleveland yesterday. It was supposed to be an event on School Choice. Ended up Relitigating Whether or not he supported the iraq war. Jeff mentioned north korea. The Trump Campaign did put out a statement on north korea just in the last hour saying that this latest nuclear test conducted by north korea is just the latest example of the catastrophic failures of the clinton or the clinton tenure as Secretary Of State during the Obama Administration. So it is possible well hear donald trump talk about that. National Security Issues have been top of mind all week. You mentioned this appearance donald trump had on rtv. That happened last night when he appeared on that program with former cnn host larry king. Thats something that the donald Trump Campaign is saying donald trump had no idea this was going to happen. Kellyanne conway said this morning on cnns new day this morning that Laydonald Trump W doing a podcast and that play pd on larry Kings Program which airs on rtv. They are saying this was not a decision made by donald trump. Of course the Clinton Campaign, democrats, are saying this is just the latest example of this odd bromance that donald trump has with Vladimir Putin. But i will tell you just listening to Reince Priebus right now at this Values Voters Summit right here in washington. It does seem that donald trump is going to be trying to tend that conservative flock here. He is going to be hitting on some of the things we heard from Reince Priebus a few moments ago. Reince priebus acknowledging that there may be some christian conservatives who are nervous about donald trump, saying that there are two words this crowd needs to keep into mind heading into the Polling Places in november, that is the supreme court. Think well hear donald trump make that same case as well. Hes made the case that christian conservatives throughout this election cycle. Well listen for him and take it live. Jim and jeff, thank you both so much. Back to putin and this rTv Appearance. But straight to this Breaking News we are just getting on the hacks in to several Democratic Party organizations and election operations. Cnn has just learned that there is renewed confidence that russia is in fact behind these cyber breakins and sources say several republican lawmakers now believe it. To evan perez we go, our justice correspondent. What changed . You know, i think these lawmaker came back from their very long Summer Vacation and came in for briefings from law enforcement, from intelligence officials this past week. I know that several of them have been sitting in these briefings, getting the latest information from the fbi, from Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community. The picture that they are getting is that there is near certainty that russian intelligence was behind the fact the hacks a against the Democratic Party organization, including the dnc. You know theres been a lot of activity, including against some think tanks and even against reporters for the new york times. All of this tied in to russian intelligence activity. In addition, what they heard from the briefers is that those hacks that weve been reporting on against the election registration websites in illinois and arizona and some other states, they now firmly believe, the fbi, investigators that are doing this, believe that this is also the work of russian hackers. I think for a lot of lawmakers who were perhaps a little skeptical about whether or not this was the Clinton Campaign and the democrats who were pushing this line about russian involvement, i think this changed the picture. Theyre now believing it. Right. Now we are talking about russians trying to mess with the u. S. Election system. We are a just a couple months away from that, now weeks away from the first ballots being cast in early voting in some of the states. I think thats what changes the concern here. Now Behind The Scenes there is also a big debate inside the Obama Administration. What to do about this. Right . Because the fbi and the Justice Department believe that theyve done the investigation. They believe they know firmly that we should be able to say that the russians are behind this. I think they are getting some pushback. I know they are getting some pushback from some folks in the Intelligence Community, from the state department. There is other concerns going on there. You see secretary kerry is trying to negotiate a deal with the russians over syria. The Intelligence Community is concerned about perhaps exposing some of our own programs. After all, our spies are doing some of the similar things against russian websites and so on. So thats part of the picture. Then the white house. The white house is very concerned about appearing to be meddling in the election. They dont want to come out and say its russia, then appearing to be tipping the scales towards Hillary Clinton. And also, frankly, they also want to make sure that the fbi does not work to show the connection between the russian government hackers and wikileaks which is the organization that publish some of those dnc files. A lot of activity going on Behind The Scenes, brooke. Were going to hear a lot more about this in the 60 days that are left before this election. Im sure from the nominees themselves as well. Evan, thank you, for all of that here as we are talking about putin, talking about russia and in light of the news there, the latest outcry over donald trump may even get louder. The republican nominee is under fire for praising russian president Vladimir Putin. Listen, he has done it before but this time the nominee seemed t to align, at least on some issues, with putin. His representatives said if they had known the trump appearance on rtv would be seen as the kremlinbacked network, he would not have done the interview. Here is what trump said about whether he believes russia launched a covert operation to disrupt the 2016 u. S. Election. I think its probably unlikely. I think maybe maybe the democrats are putting that out. Who knows. But i think that its pretty unlikely. But, you know, who knows . I hope that if they are doing something, i hope that somebodys going to be able to find out so they can they can end it. Because that would not be appropriate at all. Trump has also said that he had absolutely no opinion on the fbi investigating whether russians hacked i can hear you in my ear, if you dont mind getting out. Thank you. Into Democratic Party emails though. As we just told you, more and more officials in washington are now ready to say that is exactly what happened. With me now, cnn political commentator Michael Smerconish hosting smerconish on cnn saturday mornings. Before we get to putin, you heard he have beens reporting. Some republicans are now buying into, you know, it might be russia meddling. Well, i heard jeffs report and i heard evans report. And its hard not to put it all together and see it as causally connected. Meaning that donald trump extends himself to a broad cast network thats controlled by the russians, says kind things about Vladimir Putin, so as to give him encouragement with regard to evans story about russian involvement in the hacks. You remember, brooke, at the outset of the Democratic National convention, the whole Debbie Wasserman schultz fiasco that cost her her job. And so is it really a Leap Of Faith for donald trump to be hoping that theyve got meaning the russians something drawn from one of those 13 private devices that were dependent upon Hillary Clintons private email servers, and hoping that there will be a real October Surprise in this election where theres a russian leak of something embarrassing that was on that server, that should not have been. I see it all potentially as fitting together. This is just when we thought it couldnt get more interesting. Right . It has. Right. And then you have these manu raju, hes a tough working reporter. He is our correspondent on capitol hill. He was chasing down these, congressmen and women to get their opinions on Donald Trumps sort of proverbial embrace of putin. One point the door is kind of closing on john mccains elevator but he says, essentially, hes a murderous thug, being putin. What do you think of being republicans having this sort of answer for donald trump . First of all, i thought that was great reporting. Funny you bring that up, because my day began by my watching manu skirt all of them. It was tremendous. Behind closed doors and such. To me, it is almost like the equivalent of a domestic situation where two people are not getting along, but there is an outsider to the family and if the outsider is all of a sudden an interloper, well, you train your guns on that person. Thats how i feel, regardless of how you feel about trump or about clinton, the fact that Vladimir Putin would want to screw with our election . Doesnt that cause us all to say, whoa, wait a minute. This is entirely inappropriate and yet im not hearing that from one side of the aisle, and i think that is a problem. Let me throw another voice into this conversation. Bill clinton. He is out on the trail today and just made some comments about donald trump. Take a listen. Comfortable in the moderator the other night . Well even with that, she did just fine. The only thing that bothered me was that i thought there should have been more discussion about that mexican trip because he said his trip was a success because the Finance Minister got fired. Finance minister lost his job because, if youre going to be president , you [ sin a [ inaudible ] it is very important. I always favored the toughest language face to face person in private. And then try to avoid embarrassing people but by all means tell the same story at home and abroad. If not, it gets you in trouble. Are you offering any advice . For hillary . No. I just go and listen. If i think i can make a point better, ill say it. But the thing is she just knows so much. The thing when you know a lot and have time constraints, practice to know the most important things to say about each question. Its pretty easy prep. You just have to do it over and over again. But you can never forget you dont have five minutes. You have 30, 60, or 90 seconds depending on the format. Thank you, mr. President. We just wanted to quickly turn that around. As i am looking at president clinton, lets throw the pictures michael, dont know if youve seen these photos. These were all out because of a foia request. A freedom of information request. Donald trump, bill clinton whos the playboy bunny. Stand by. Yeah, the bunny. Who do you think ha is more to lose by these pictures being out . Well, i think it comports already with our perception of trump. Right . To see him in this kind of an environment. Theres Nothing Shocking to me. What its a reminder of is the one time clubbiness, chummy relationship between all of them. And the fact that when he was married for the third time, the clintons were there. I think that she said, meaning Hillary Clinton, i think she said, well, she thought it would be entertaining. How unbelievable that not too many years later, now theyre the combatants and saying the most ugly of things about one another. Politics. Thats my answer for you. Michael smerconish this years politics. We watch you on saturdays here on cnn, 9 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Thank you so much. Thank you. We are moments away from donald trump and Hillary Clinton both speaking live on the campaign trail today. We will be right back. Energy is a complex challenge. People want power. And power plants account for more than a third of energyrelated carbon emissions. 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Com business in just a couple minutes, donald trump will take the podium at the Values Voters Summit there in washington, d. C. Former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani, good friend, advisor to mr. Trump, speaking right now. Also speaking in support of trump at that very summit, former pennsylvania senator and former republican president ial candidate rick santorum. Senator, always a pleasure to have you on. Welcome. Thank you, brooke. Great to be back on your show. Before break we were talking about trump and his assertions that you the russian president , Vladimir Putin, is a better leader than obama. He said that the other night at that forum. It was something that his running mate