The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Purveysive campaign to try to weaken and divide the United States. Our democracy is in the cr s crosshairs. Russia attempted to interfere in the last election and continues to this day. Reporter there seems to be a tale of two different white houses. Offering two different messages. The president in one speech that went over an hour long to his supporters and his top intelligence chiefs offering that blunt warning. President trump last night was saying that putin did not want him to win the election. That Doesnt Square with what Vladimir Putin himself said just three weeks ago while standing right next to the president. I will tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump won. That i can tell you. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election . Translator yes, i did. Reporter we are continuing to see these very two different messages from the president and his own officials, continuing to play out. Something we saw play out in the aftermath of the summit in helsinki. We should also note that the director of national intelligence, dan coats, said yesterday that even now he still doesnt fully understand and cant speak about what happened when the president was one on one with Vladimir Putin. Kaitlan collins with the latest for us. Appreciate it. Joining us now, steve hall, Cnn National Security analyst and retired cia chief of russia operations. When we heard from the top officials yesterday, we heard that theres a pervasive Messaging Campaign by russia here. What would the Messaging Campaign be here in the United States beyond, theres a disconnect . Theres a couple of Different Things going on here. One of the things that struck me when i listened to the intelligence professionals those are the ones you should be listening to. The president deals with the
russia situation on a political scale. He sees it as a threat to his presidency. But in terms of actual National Security, you need to listen to the professionals. The professionals said, yes, its there is going to be and the russians are engaged in attacks on the midterm elections. They are Getting Better at it. They are more discreet. We found that out when facebook talked about the pages they took down but let us know it was harder to find those pages. Theres no doubt the russians are going after us. What they are looking for are those social and political issues that have so polarized the United States. Theyre looking to create greater confusion and Greater Division in the country that they see or putin sees as his main enemy, which is the United States. Thats what it is all about at this particular point. As they are looking to exploit the divisions there are clear divisions, as we have seen and been laying out. Especially after yesterday. You have these top intel officials, National Security, experts and officials and you have the president. With that kind of disconnect, does that embolden russia . Does it embolden Vladimir Putin . Absolutely. You have if you look to divide the United States, you can certainly divide people along some of the social issues that we know are hot button issues. When you get divisions between the president of the United States, the commander who is responsible for National Security in this country, and his Senior Intelligence and National Security officials who are nominated by him, when you get a Division Like that, that for Vladimir Putin is just really a coup. Its a fabulous accomplishment when you get that senior level division. Things are going very well for putin. I might add, these congressional delegations that we hear about where you get snores aenators a representatives going to moscow when we know they are attacking our country, thats another big win for Vladimir Putin. Its going really well for him in the win loss column. As he is racking up the ws, for the American Voter who is watching this, we heard clearly yesterday that the top priority is to secure the systems here, to make sure that everything is protected. And yet what would you say to the American Voter today . Can they have faith in the system . Can they believe that they are going to be protected come november . Thats a tough one. The bottom line is, we have to believe to a certain extent that the system has at least a minimal act of protection. We cant stop the voting. That would be a complete win for Vladimir Putin. We have to move forward. Complicated by the fact that its really a hard job. My heart goes out to those Government Organizations that are actually trying to secure the voting. Its really tough. Theres no doubt that we ought not to be less than 90 days before midterm elections, we ought not to be talking about, what do we need to do . We need to be talking about
implementing the stuff that the measures that ought to have been developed over the past year. I think its clear from the signs we are seeing were not as far along as we would want to be. That is for sure. Steve hall sh pree, appreciate. Still to come, its day four of the Paul Manafort trial under way now. Could his longtime aide rick gates take the stand today . Prosecutors detailing how manafort went from living large to going broke. The Trump Administration says the aclu, not the government, the aclu should now be tasked with finding deported parents, parents the government deported after separating the children from them. New details on that just ahead. A bizarre story out of washington where police are on high alert investigating the possible abduction of a 12yearold girl. We are on top of it. R, new laptop with 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes start them off right. With the School Supplies they need at low prices all summer long. Save 200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. Save 200 on this dell laptop but behr premium stain y can weather any weather. Overall 1 rated, weathers it all. Find our most advanced formula exclusively at the home depot. Only remfresh usesodys ionpowered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. Number one sleep doctor recommended remfreshyour nightly sleep companion. As we near the end of week one of the bank fraud and Tax Evasion Trial of President Trumps former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort, today could be the day the jurors hear from former codefendant rick gates. After laying out some eyepopping evidence to paint this lavish lifestyle that Paul Manafort led, including everything he bought with the millions he allegedly hid from the irs, prosecutors turned to the fraud he allegedly committed to get loans when his lobbying business tanked. Thats where testimony resumed this morning. It brings me to our expert, cnn legal analyst, shan wu. Interesting to see as we saw
this shift, the judge we know in the beginning was not loving all the details about the lavish lifestyle. Now that were getting into the nuts and bolts of the bookkeeping, folks saying there was a shift in the judge and how he is even dealing with this. What does that tell you . That tells me that the judge is very concerned about keeping the trial on focus. I think he pointed out that too much focus on very lavish lifestyles, he said it would cause resentment. He wants to protect the verdict. He wants to make sure the record is a good one. Now as they move more into the document evidence, the meat of the case, i think he is more pleased on this going in that direction. Theres a lot of anticipation, obviously, for rick gates, what he will say when he takes the stand. We have a sense, obviously, of what the Press Contusiosecution Get Out of him. It will be fascinating to see what the defense does with rick gates. Absolutely. He is critical to both sides. Anything is not based on Attorney Client privilege. I represented rick briefly. He is either going to be devastating for one side or the other. I think its a been ve a bold for the defense to put all eggs in one basket. Its very clever. The prosecution needs to rely on him as being at the center of everything. By attacking the center, they are able to really attack all aspects of the case without having to necessarily get bogged down in individual details. It offers them a further defense, very typically used against immunized witnesses, they will attack them, but they can attack rick through his guilty plea saying you got a good deal, you will say anything that the prosecution wants you
to say. To your point, thats something we would hear. Thats not new to hear that from the defense. Absolutely. No matter the trial. No matter the charges, really. Thats exactly right. Whats unusual is they have so many immunized witnesses in the case. It gives the defense more of a hook and leverage to use against the prosecution for that reason. Ricks a very smart man. I know him a little bit. I think he will do well on the stand. I done think itt think its rey confidences, he is not prone toward ostrich leather. Nor are many of us. I guess theres a certain market for it. There you have it. As we look at this, were all waiting to see what happens today, there are a couple of other headlines i want your take on. Corey lewandowski telling cnn, President Trump actually hasnt asked him, but if he did he
impeachment type of trial. I think by putting this out there, they reserve the right to say if, lets say, mueller does not get to interview him, puts out a report, they can say we wanted to talk, but they were unreasonable about it. They never heard our side of the story. We will be watching and waiting with baited breath. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good to see you. The Trump Administration says immigrant advocates like the aclu, they should fine the hundreds of parents who were deported after they were separated from their children. Justice Department Lawyers said the government would turn over whatever information it could on the parents who were deported. So whats the aclus reaction to this . Reporter you can imagine, this once again sounds like the government asking someone else to clean up the mess that it made. A lot of this comes from Court Filings that came through this week where essentially, they were working through how to locate these the parents of these children who have been deported while the children
remain in custody because they were separated from their parents under the Zero Tolerance policy. The aclu said, we are eager to help with this. We want to reunite the families. Maintains the onus should be on the u. S. Government, because the u. S. Government is the one who separated them. They have more resources. I want to read a quote from aclu attorneys. Not only was it the governments Uncould Unconstitutional Separation crisis that led to this, about you the United States government has more resources. The government actually proposed that they meet every monday with the aclu and they can turn over information to them about parents, about children, what research and abilities they have done to track them down. The aclu says in certain instances, 12 of the parents that they tracked down in their home countries, they had been contacted by the u. S. Government. Once again, as we have seen from the start of this saga here, the
government is not communicating with these ngos and at the same time asking for their assistance. In all of the Reunification Efforts when we have been down at the board he in the communities when they do this, we have watched the ngos and Volunteer Organizations pick up the slack and take the lead when the government appears in many cases to be doing the minimum. 400 kids according to filings, they have parents who are outside of the country. There is a lot of work to be done. According to the aclu, the government resisted giving them case files. It makes it more difficult to work with them on this. Again, they are saying that there is red tape and that there is a lack of communication which is making this more difficult as deadlines start to come closer and pile up. They will meet every month i mean every week and they will get an update. Im sure it will get worked out. Its remarkable. Appreciate the reporting. Still ahead this hour, the president steps up his attacks on what he now calls fake, Disgusting News while repeating claims that have no apparent basis in fact. So you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop with 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes start them off right. With the School Supplies they need at low prices all summer long. Save 200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. Save 200 on this dell laptop
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