The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the tweets, on one
hand, the tweets are just irrelevant to mueller and his team. Its just Background Noise and theyre not paying attention to it. In terms of affecting the work theyre doing. But it could influence direction or could even with cause more probative questions . It could provide leads and, in fact, even amount to evidence at some point. Even when he tweets blatantly that sessions should fire mueller. Thats the kind of tweet that could amount to evidence whether the word is must or should. Its important. In terms of the tweets as criticism, you know, thats what i mean when i say the mueller team is not paying attention to that. Sure, theyre looking for potential evidence there. And so well see how that goes. I dont if i had to predict, i wouldnt say the president will sit down with the mueller team. Im not sure the mueller team needs the president to sit down to make whatever case or cases theyre trying to make. Meaning they already know the
answers likely . Just to see whether someones being truthful . I think thats right. Ironically enough, most subjects or targets of investigations, when theyre given an opportunity to sit down with the prosecutors, its really in their benefit to potentially talk themselves out of an indictment. In the absence of sitting down and convincing the prosecutors an indictment is forthcoming. Its more complicated of course with the president because theres the school of thought that says the sitting president cannot be indicted. Im not sure that theres a good answer here for the president. On one hand, Defense Lawyers would say dont sit down in the situation. On the other hand, of course, the mueller team will assume the worst if they dont get cooperation. And then, you know, steve, all of these investigations are taking rather odd twists. Because now sources are telling cnn that kristin davis, also known as the Manhattan Madam, met mueller for a voluntary interview this week. Investigators appear to be interested in her close ties with longtime trump adviser
roger stone. So, steve, how do you see all of this connecting . Well, the Manhattan Madam part admittedly might be a bit out of my expertise. But i think the hard thing that mueller has to do here and of course hes uniquely qualified, as is his team, is move from all these pieces of information, many of which have significant counterintelligence implications. What are key people doing. Where is money moving. What are the connections back to russia. What malfeasance is going on. In moving from simply counterintelligence stuff, which is basically common sense suspicions and following patterns to a legal case where you can actually begin convicting people and saying, okay, the laws were broken here. I think common sensically, everybody can look back and say, look, there was a lot of no good stuff going on here. But turning that into a legal case is something thats a bit tougher. I do think, you know, for
roger stone, he must be looking at Paul Manafort right now going, you know, if theyre going to build a case against me, if thats why theyre interviewing the Manhattan Madam and theyre going after me and my finances, do i really want to go through this trial so like an imposing fear . Yes, its sort of a warning. You know, like do you want to end up like Paul Manafort or cooperate and end up like Michael Cohen. Thats a choice between a lot of these guys who are part of this investigation. I think roger stone, things are really closing in on him, and thats going to be his choice too. Potential legal strategies here. Thank you so much. Appreciate you all. All right, still ahead, a letter from the president. Secretary of state mike pompeo hand delivers a message from President Trump to a north korean official. So what does this pen pal kind of situation say about the relationship between the two leaders . 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Earlier this week, trump himself received a letter from north Korean Leader kim jongun. Global Affairs CorrespondentElise Labbott with me now. What more do we know about the nature of these letters . We dont know anything about them, but i can suspect its in vogue now. Now that the two leaders meet, they have to exchange letters at every gathering that the u. S. And north korea are. Theyre just pretty much generally saying we want to continue, we are committed. But if you look past the last week, theres been ups and downs. Reports that north korea is continuing to evade sanctions, continuing to develop its Nuclear Program and theres a lot of rhetoric going back the last couple of days. Especially in terms of north korea meeting the denuclearization, which pompeo admitted today that north koreas really setting the pace of this, that theyre going to be the ones who dictate when theyre going to denuclearize. They initiated the letter, right . And presumably it doesnt just say hi, how you doing. There must be in this kind of dialogue a tick tock of this is what were willing to do, this is what we dont want to do, this is what we like. No, there doesnt have to be. You would hope that there would be and there should be. But a lot of these letters are
just kind of reaffirming the commitments that each one was willing to do. Secretary pompeo has not been able to nail the north koreans down either for a time line for denuclearization or for the definition of what it actually means. It means something very different to north korea than it does to the United States. And as soon as secretary pompeo left after shaking hands with the north Korean Foreign minister and exchanging some pleasantries, as soon as he left that meeting of asean nations in singapore, the north Korean Foreign minister was blasting the United States for not lifting sanctions, for saying that it needs these type of confidence building measures. So although certainly rhetoric has improved since a year ago when it was all fire and fury, theres not a lot of progress in terms of the denuclearization. Last hour you reported the u. S. Says that north korea is evading sanctions. But what does this mean . No surprise there, right . Its no surprise. But the problem is when the two leaders met and theres this agreement to kind of move forward, countries thought they could relax on the sanctions. So theres an oil ban, a petroleum ban, against north korea. Now there seems to be transfers of oil, ship to ship transfers. And russia is responsible. Chinas responsible. They have pictures. Also north koreas defying an arms embargo, trying to ship light arms place, proliferating weapons. So as the u. S. And north korea start to move closer together, countries feel that they can relax some of those sanctions and now north korea could get some of the retch knew that sanctions have been designed to put pressure to get them to give up the Nuclear Program. Well see whats next. Elise labbott, thanks so much. Now to iran where the countrys navy is holding Military Exercises in the Strait Of Hormuz in the persian gulf and the war games come as theTrump Administration is preparing to reinstate sanctions against iran and President Trump and iranian leaders have spent the past few weeks exchanging threats on social media. Cnns International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson joining me right now. Nic, no accident that iran has chosen the Strait Of Hormuz to flex its military muscle. This is a major shipping area. What is the message being sent . Really seems to be the message being sent that if iran so chooses, it can disrupt the worlds oil fields. 20 of the worlds oil passes through there. Its a major choke point effectively. And impacting one oil tanker, never mind shutting down the whole straits, would put a spike, a nasty spike into oil markets. Perhaps trigger higher fuel costs for us. The reality is we dont know why iran has put these military
exercises into play right now. The timing of course right before in position of sanctions on them, because theyve because President Trump unilaterally pulled out of that International Joint program with iran and irans commitment to denuclearize. That really puts economic pressure on iran. So i think the indicators here are absolutely as you say theyre flexing their muscles at a strategic choke point that could have huge impacts, huge economic impact, were they to push ahead with some nefarious activity. No indication thats going to happen. The iranians didnt talk about this Military Exercise publicly. Often they do. So the moment, its just a lot of questions around it, fredricka. All right, thats at the straight s of hormuz. U. S. And turkey, both of these countries have frozen the assets
of key officials. Is this all over the pastor being held in turkey . It seems to be, though there are other issues in the background, you know, the decision to suspend the sales of f35 Fighter Aircraft to turkey. That was a decision taken by the senate recently that put that decision off now to wait for a report from the pentagon in 90 days. So the turkish are not happy about that. Theres turkish Banking Officials that are currently going through the courts because the United States accuses them of trying to get around sanctions on iran, sanctions busting there. Theres differences of opinion over syria. But it does seem to be the issue. He has really brought things to a fore. Earlier in the week, the United States deciding to sanction the Justice Minister and interior minister. We heard from turkeys Foreign Minister in the middle of the week, saying they would reciprocate. Despite the fact that the Turkish Foreign minister met with Secretary Of State pompeo in the past few hours and the readout from that meeting was positive, constructive that they thought they were making ground on this issue that it could be resolved in a number of days or weeks. Now we hear from turkeys president today, reciprocating, as the Foreign Ministry warned they would, by sanctions on the turkish assets of the United States justice and Interior Ministers. Now, obviously, the United StatesDoesnt Have Justice and Interior Ministers and turkey hasnt yet said who these people are, but it looks like it could be Attorney General jeff sessions. It looks like it could be secretary of Homeland Security krist kristirstjen nielsen. So the impact this would have would be minimal. But the signaling, its not a positive development for getting him back to the United States or even out of House Detention where he is now. Nic robertson, thank you. Coming up, hundreds of children and parents still apart after being separated at the
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