White house correspondent who was there traveling with the president in florida. How has the white house responded to this report . There is no question that general flynn is the closest member who is at the heart of this russia investigation. The lawyers are pushing back to any conclusions about this. One of the president s lawyers said this to cnn. He said no one should draw the conclusion that this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. We know as this investigation proceeds and muellers moves towards its next chapter we know flynn is at the center of these conversations. You know, they are reporting that it is possible and even more than that likely there is some type of some type of cooperation. Well only find that out when this grand jury completes its investigation. The white house saying dont rush to conclusions on this. Well have analysis on this in just a minute. We know we have been talking about this terror attack. Several hundred People Killed and injured in egypt and the president tweeted about it. We understand he is on the phone or about to call the egyptian president. We do know that, brook. This hour President Trump is back after playing golf this morning for a few hours. We are expecting him to make a phone call in this hour to the egyptian president to, you know, condemn the terror attack and reach out in sympathy. The president has also seized to further his own immigration agenda. Look at this tweet. He says i will be calling the president of egypt to discuss the tragic terrorist attack with so much loss of life. We have to get tougher and smarter than ever before. God bless the people of egypt. The wall, the southern border wall with mexico to talk about domestic immigration and the travel ban does not include egypt. The president at the very lest con flating or seizing on this to try to further his own immigration here. We do know they will be having a call and once we get that well let you me what happened. Thank you so much. By the way, we will take you to the attack scene and tell you what happened and if anyone claimed we responsibility here. Lets go back to Michael Flynn and why he is such a key figure here in this russia investigation. General flynn lasted only 23 days. His first Public Statement was to put iran on notice. President trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between iran and the Obama Administration as well as United Nations as being weak and ineffective. Iran is feeling em boldened. We are officially putting iran on notice. You saw that was february 1. Flynn resigned after a conversation he had with a russian ambassador. He denied he discussed u. S. Sanctions with that diplomat. It showed flynn did in fact discuss a possible violation of law. It was the reason the acting attorney general warned the white house could be blackmailed by the russians. For example flynn failed to initially register as a forbe agent. They received more than 500,000 from a turkish owned company. His firm was lobbying on behalf as flynn was getting classified intelligence briefings. Flynn was the reason President Trump pressured the then fbi director james comey. Comey told congressional hearing that the president asked him to drop that russia investigation because of general flynn. We have not just one but two great perspectives to hash out this development. With me now a former ambassador to the che republic. Welcome to you john dean. You have been there. You turned against president nixon. When you hear this news that flynns lawyers are no longer sharing information with team trump what does that tell you . Is. My first reaction is to agree with what the New York Times analysts said they thought it was an indication of cooperation. It could be another defense fund. We really dont know. I think its wise how cautious. When youre cooperating what enticed you to talk and comply . I had already broken up. Fortunately all of that was recorded. Thats really when i had try today brace them and tried to get them all to do the right thing. I told them i was going to go to the prosecutors and find out what they were looking at and did it very openly. They spent a month trying to figure out what to do with me. Im sure we could talk on that for quite a while. To you, you know, youre such a fascinating voice because you me gauch gauche negotiated. Tell me that story. Well in my career as a white collar defender had the occasion frequently to represent individuals who were under investigation including an individual being investigated by bob muellers. We had a protracted negotiation. We exited the joint Defense Agreement and ultimately we arranged a cooperation deal. Im a little less cautious than my friend john dean. I dont think that the cooperation has been signed and sealed yet necessarily but i think thats the most likely interpretation of whats going on here. And if thats correct then its very bad news for President Trump and those around him. And its also my understanding that you say mueller may not give a deal to flynn unless he implicates someone. Thats correct. I had the opportunity years later of working with bob on an investigation. I know how he rolls. He is not going to hand out these cooperation deals like christmas candy. On the contrary and its Standard Operating Procedure you have got to rollover on somebody up the ladder. In the same way john cooperated against those above him and ultimately lead to the resignation of the president. I think mueller will want something on trump himself. Wow. So taking that and john dean back over to you, if that is the case, if he has a roll on someone higher up the ladder, how do you know that a cooperating witness is telling you everything he or she actually knows . There are conversations where the prosecutor has the gd idea ocht nature of the witnesss testimony and theres a written agreement that will formalize that. So its very hard to back down and the prosecutor has a good idea of what they are getting when they give that exchange. So that really isnt a mystery at all. It will be how effective he or she might be as a witness will be some what test but not fully tested. What about the mike flynn jr. Factor . He has expressed concern recently over his son that prosecutors might bring charges against his son. How might his son be a factor as he and his legal team move forward . Brook, its another classic prosecution tactic in order get your desired cooperator to flip. I defended someone in the enron case. It includes some of those working for bob mueller here. So you apply the pressure of the family members. It encourages the desired cooperate to to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I think it could very well be going on here. So thats a potential. Isnt it also so significant, we talked about charges all former Trump Associates but this is a retired three star general. It is someone who has been loyal for so long and what he could potentially offer is much bigger than all three of the others. I think thats probably true and his time with trump is fairly extensive. He is there early in the campaign and then goes right into the white house with him. So yes, he is probably the strongest witness and looks like the one that mueller is most interested in. He already indicted manafort and there is probably talk before that was handed down. It didnt make him pause to with hold any indictment there. So i think, yes, this is a good witness with and if indeed this has happened it is going to change the dynamics of the case very radically. All right. Thank you both so much. Have a wonderful hopefully peaceful holiday weekend. Appreciate you both. Thank you. Also happening here, a major global summit will be held in india next week. The secretary of state is not sending a High Level Team and they say it is for one reason and one reason alone, because the president s daughter is leading this u. S. Delegation. There have been obvious differences that you see between the state department and white house. Those tensions are still there and they are being felt. Trump is about to leave for weekend for india. It is called a Global Entrepreneur and the women here is womens entrepreneurs. She was indicted on this. These sources say that tillerson and his and it is allowed to go and that the acting assistant secretary tillerson they dont love the fact that ivanka trump is leading the delegation and they dont want to bolster this. When you look at this trip in the past secretary kerry has gone more than once. It was kerry and secretary of state and this year i asked a spokesperson who exactly is going. The list hasnt been made public yet but they did sent me a short list of top government officials and none of them were in the state department except for the u. S. Ambassador. The state department is trying to cut back and theres no permanent for the region who has been confirmed. The responses we get are well, okay, if youll send a small delegation then send the highest level person you can and cut back in other cays. A source says this is Rex Tillerson not loving this idea. I should add that the state department wont go on regard on this subject. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Coming up next, terrorists detonating bombs inside this mosque in egypt and someone opening fire on ambulances who are responding. Details who may be behind this attack. South korea punishes the soldiers that were unable to stop. Whats happening to them and how the north is beefing up border security. Remember how the economic crash was supposed to be a wake up call for our government . People all across the country lost their savings, their pensions and their jobs. Im tom steyer and it turned out that the system that had benefited people like me who are well off, was, in fact, stacked against everyone else. Its why i left my Investment Firm and resolved to use my savings for the public good. But here we are nine years later and this president and the Republican Congress are making a bad situation even worse. They wont tell you that their so called tax reform plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. 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The two World Leaders expected to talk about the this attack at a mosque that killed 235 people and injured more than a hundred. At least two explosions drove worshippers out of a mosque where again men were waiting and started shooting. Witnesses said the attackers shot at ambulances responding to the scene. Lee who was just in the region last year, ian, has anyone claimed responsibility for this . So far no one has claimed responsibility. When we look at how this attack was carried out, who was target and the area this attack took place it bears an isis style attack. Isis has been operating there for quite some time. This mosque in particular they were targeting muslims which isis use as infidels. They have been targeting them in the past. Egypts president said they are looking for culprits responsible for this attack. They said that theres going to be a state of emergency at the highest level possible in the northern part as they try to find the people who carried this out. We know that both trump are supposed to be on the phone discussing this at this very moment. The relations under former president barack obama and they didnt see eye to eye. President trump and president seem to be speaking a lot of the same language when it comes to combatting terrorism and they have grown relatively close. Expect the u. S. To offer everything the u. S. Needs. It is to use brutal force. Following different attacks as we have over the past years, egypt always says they will go stronger and tougher. Egyptian officials are worried that those militants might try to other places. Thank you so much. Well stay on it. Next here on cnn, after this daring soldier defection now we have new photos showing north korea troops digging a deep trench right there. We have details since that former soldier escaped. Shield annuities from brighthouse financial, allow you to take advantage of growth opportunities. With a level of protection in down markets. 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He was seen driving this jeep before getting stuck in the ditch before making across the demarcation line. The good news is he made it but not before being shot up at least five times. David is back with us today. Cnn politics and National Security politics. First and foremost when you hear they are replacing almost all of the soldiers guarding the border at the time, what does replacing soldiers in north korea mean . Well, what it means is they are worried about the loyalty of the people who they had vetted more strongly than those who they vetted more than anyone else. These are the few that are in a position to defect fairly easily into the south and the ones that are most tested for their own loyalty. Clearly by digging this trench they are trying to make it a lot harder for anybody that might get inspired in the future. They have always had people who found a way out. They are having a hard time keeping their Border Guards in. A trench in planting trees, how this has to entice other soldiers if any of them get word that this happened. Do you think well see others trying to defect as well . I think it will be a significant deterrent and they are making it harder. I think the bigger question, brook is we touched on briefly is does everything that we have seen happen the fact that the north is not sent off far while, the fact the president put them back on this kind of incident make it harder or easier to get talks going . I dont see any way it makes it any easier for the United States to engage. I suspect youre going to see kim jong un dig deeper into his cocoon. What about russia . We know russia is attacking the u. S. For that state sponsor of terror designation. What do you make of the fact that russia is the one trying to tame tensions . Im not sure. Its entirely possible that the russians have concluded that china is tired of dealing with kim jong un. Its certainly not making life any easier for it. I think putin has seen an opportunity here to do an opening to north korea partly to the United States and partly to give North Koreans a way to buy oil or have internet connections. It was to communicate around the world and of course north korea has ban significant source of cyber activity around the world so its possible he sees this as another way to get in the way of u. S. Diplomacy. Great to be with you. Coming up next, lawyers for general flynn say they will not be cooperating with trumps legal team anymore, what it means for the National Security adviser and this russia investigation. Also, the feds say a woman mailed bombs to former president obama and the Current Texas governor. One of them was just opened. Details ahead. What i serve my family really matters. Which is the only egg good enough for my family . Only egglands best. Better taste. Better nutrition. Better eggs. And were back. The Russian Investigation involving Michael Flynn. A source tells cnn that a source had stopped sharing information. Whats not clear here is that this change means flynn is about to strike a deal with robert mueller. Before he was forced out there were a series of missteps that likely lead to his downfall. The warning came january 26th from Deputy Attorney general sally yates. The president was immediately informed of the situation. She said Michael Flynn was potentialfully vulnerable to blackmail despite this urgent warning it seemed to be business as usual at the white house. Flynn had been labeled a Security Risk yet the very next day he was seen walking with other white house staff along the colony. On january 28th, two days after the warning he was in the oval office as the president signed executive orders and while the president called but also putin. Remember, at this point the white house is aware flynn is potentially compromised by russia. That same day the president t