A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Such concern about this . Reporter well, we have known about this meeting for a very long time, but what is only recently come to light is the fact that trump may have had advanced knowledge of this meeting or, very at the least, may have been told about it shortly after the fact. Michael cohen is preferred to testify to special counselor Robert Mueller that trump had a headsup about that meeting and contradict what donald trump jr. Has already told congressional investigators. Rudy giuliani, trumps personal attorney, is denying that trump jr. Is in legal jeopardy telling cnn n a statement, it is not so. After over a year or more of investigating there is no wrongdoing on his part for that matter the president. Nothing has changed. We are not worried about Michael Cohen he has no knowledge of wrongdoing and recorded it in one version or another so often that he cant be believed or relied on. Sources tell telling cnn that
we got to stop everybody. Reporter there is also an unexpected guest here for President Trumps speech. Former Communications Director hope hicks who resigned from the administration in february. White house Officials Say that her presence here should not signal a return, essentially telling cnn it doesnt mean much more than just a friendly visit. Boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president , outside of columbus, ohio. Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun Times lynn sweet is us and legal analyst page pate. What did you make of the president s rally and how significant is it on this special election on tuesday . In terms of rallying the base, it is significant because anything to get out the vote is important. I listen to that and there is, like, three ways to listen to that. Part of it, i have to say, that just the facts that President Trump got wrong, he talked about
but he said it. And he believes it will be effective and he pushed, pushed as far as he could about saying about painting the democrats as people were were not law abiding and wanted everything the people he was talking to did not want. Page, lets get to what else the president , as we are understanding is concerned about his son don jr. Being incriminated some some sense in this mueller probe. How vulnerable is don jr. , based on what we know thus far . Any time someone makes statements to a Congressional Panel or investigators or Law Enforcement officers, there is always the risk if they give a false statement, if they Say Something that is not true, they can later be prosecuted for either making a false statement, which is a separate crime, or perjury, if the testimony is given under oath. The question is does the special counsel have enough evidence to prove something don jr. Said was false . I dont think they will rest
simply on what Michael Cohen may be saying now. I think they are going to need more. There if there is corroborating evidence that don jr. Said anything about that meeting or in addition Anything Else that is not true he faces the risk of being prosecuted for making a false statement or possibly for perjury. The president is a father. You understand his concern for his son, lynn. Sure. Is there anything that the president i mean, just talking about it and being out there, he is actually, in some sense, do you think, making it worse for don jr. . No. Because i think mueller and his probers just follow the trail. And i know, page, you talked about what seems to be a potential Obstruction Of Justice charge. I think the exposure lies is that don jr. Could speak to the collusion charge. Whether or not the meeting took place, how it took place, and why it took place are very important we know it took place. Are pieces of the puzzle. Was it because it was not just
during the the trial that is not necessarily true. But if he has something to offer the special counsels office then he could always strike a deal. Looking at the evidence we have seen so far in the trial, it is moving fast, i think much faster than most people expected, there is a pile of documents building up that the prosecution has laid out for people to see that show false statements were made, money was being moved, and manafort knew about it. The real question is what are we going to hear from rick gates next week . I do anticipate he will be called early in the week. Will he be able to show that manafort knew about all of these false statements, all of the money movements and l. Failures to disclose the Bank Accounts . Because manaforts team, of course, is saying this is all rick gates and he did it all and did it so he could steal money from paul manafort. Now is the crunch time for the defense. Will they be able to show that through crossexamination . Lynn sweet and page pate, we appreciate you being here so much. Thank you. The search for a missing toddler from georgia led to a rescue in new mexico. What we are learning about the 11 children looiving in deplorae conditions. And a hurricane is heading for hawaii. We will have more on that coming up. And first lady distances herself from her husbands criticism and praising James Charity work. We will have more on that. Teacher lets turn in your science papers. Tech vo this teacher always puts her students first. Student i did mine on volcanoes. Teacher you did . oh, i cant wait to read it. Tech vo so when she had auto glass damage. She chose safelite. With safelite, she could see exactly when wed be there. Teacher you must be pascal. Tech yes maam. Tech vo saving her time. [honk, honk] kids bye tech vo . So she can save the science project. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace chicken thats right, chicken . candace
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organization. Ebola outcome in the democratic republic of congo. 73 people have died so far including two health care workers. They are treating 13 confirmed case of ebola and 30 other probable case. The World Health Organization says this Ebola Outbreak is even more challenging because experts are having to respond in the middle of a war zone. The search for a missing toddler from georgia led investigators to an incredibly shocking discovery in new mexico in the desert. Nearly a dozen children living in filthy conditions. A reporter from our Affiliate Koat takes us there. Reporter sheriffs deputies got a missing child bulletin in may. Other agencies across the country got the same one. Specific to us that there was information they might have been traveling to northern new mexico. Reporter they learned about a compound being built in a meadow. Pretty much completely off the grid and right up just
literally only a mile or so from the county and colorado border. The investigation didnt turn up much. We just continued to learn what we could about it and, at some point in there, we kind of believed that this might have an access to the missing child in georgia. Reporter surveillance continued on that compound and two adults were identified. We were able to get a Search Warrant for the property to search for the child, the father, and the welfare of anyone else on the property. Reporter 11 eleven ages ranging from 1 to 15 were found inside horrible conditions. The sheriffs describe the kids as looking like starving refuges and people passing through were surprised to hear this. Its horrible. It scares me because the
safety of my own children who are teenagers. You never know what can happen at any given point. Reporter waha and morton were arrested. Our thanks to Shelly Leggett in albuquerque for that report. The children we understand are in the care of child protective service. No word on where the missing child from georgia was but we are told that chill was not one of the 11 found in the compound. Just to be clear there. A father accused of killing his two young children, Houston Police say the childrens mother found them stabbed to death in their own beds yesterday afternoon. The Woman Told Police after dropping off the 8yearold boy and 1yearold girl at their fathers apartment he called saying he was going to kill them. Police say the couple had been married but recently separated. Its that time of the year. Hurricane hector has weakened slightly, still a category 3. The thing its taking aim at hawaii. Emergency management officials are telling people there to, of course, prepare and get their survival kits ready now. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has more on hectors path. Good morning. Hurricane hector winds 125 miles an hour and gusting to a 155. Its movement is west about at 12 miles per hour. Its still basically in the middle of the ocean. Still well away from hawaii but its making its way in that direction. It is a category 3 storm right now, but it was just a category 4 just a few hours ago. But we are starting to see where that storm is moving. It is expected to remain a major hurricane until tuesday midday. Then we expect some more weakening as it continues its
trek to the west. Notice here. It is expected to clip the southern edge of the big island of hawaii. Two similar storms in the last four years both Hurricane Esell and Hurricane Darby formed in the Eastern Pacific and a Similar Trek Toward The Big Island and impacted that big island in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Just in the last four years. Now one thing to note is this particular track really just clips the very southern edge of the big island. The volcano we have been talking about for months, kilauea, is to the north of where that cone line ends up dropping off so it is expected to be outside of that cone of certainty that would end up having the direct hit. Now, at this point in time, the main concern Going Forward really is going to be the rainfall. Because even if it does not make a direct hit on the big island of hawaii, Those Outer Bands will still provide some pretty significant moisture. At this point in time not out of the question to get two, three, four, each perhaps as much as 6 inches of rain. The good news is that going to be focused on just one of the
islands. The remainder of the islands to the north and west of that will likely get lesser amounts, say, under about 2 inches total as this system slides off to the west. Allison chinchar, thank you. A report that a russian woman charged with spying got really close to a former Trump Campaign aide and we will have the details of that story in a minute. The New York Times columnist said the president s attack against the media sheds light on his Empire Campaign to monopolize information. This is not a bed. Its a hightech revolution in sleep. The new sleep number 360 smart bed. It intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. And snoring . How smart is that . Smarter sleep. To help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. The new sleep number 360 smart bed, from 999. Smarter sleep will change your life. Happy anniversary dinner, darlin. Can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra . Oh yeah one bottle has the Grease Cleaning Power of three bottles of this other liquid. A drop of dawn and grease is gone. Our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. buzzer sound holiday inn express. Be the readiest. Happy sunday to you. Glad to have you here. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Good to see you. A new report from the Washington Post that maria butina who is russian charged with spying interacted with j. D. Gordon in the runup of the 2016 election. The two were in contact over email in september and october of 2016. Gordon invited her to attend a concert and Birthday Party that month. Here is cnn sara sidner. Reporter for alleged russian spy, maria butina skills she liked the platforms of twitter and whats app. Her approach left men wondering what she is really after and sources say she bragged about her ties to russian intelligence when she was intoxicated. Some reported her to Law Enforcement sources tell cnn. She pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a Foreign Agent after her arrest in july. Her lawyer says she is not a spy and wont cut a deal with prosecutors if it means saying she is one. The problem is cutting a deal but if youre not an agent for a federal government you cant lie and say you are to get rid of this. Reporter Intelligence Experts see butina as trying to infiltrate gop political circles as one of the cools in moscow arsenals and Vladimir Putin tries to meddle in american democracy, an ongoing effort. We continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and guide the united states. Reporter past russian spies
have adopted fake identities, used invisible inc. Ening and coded with messages over Radio Transmitters but the under radar approach didnt seem to suit but butina. In 2015, she questioned then candidate donald trump about sanctions against russia at a nevada political event. Im a visitor from russia. Reporter as an American University student, putin defended putten and claimed to be the Russian Campaign and sources. People who met her say she was a little too friendly and quick to Start Playing footsy under the table and asked men to be facebook friends. Her lawyer admits her activities and contacts caught the attention of the fsb one of russias security services. I think anyone who is russian has to meet with the fsb when
they go back and forth and frequently asked at the airport what they are doing in america if they have information from the fsb. Reporter experts say she was probably a valuable asset for russia. I think she would have been valuable to the russian government despite the fact she wasnt A Classically trained Intelligence Officer like perhaps someone luike anna chapman. Reporter when investigators searched the home of butina and her boyfriend who has not been accused of wrongdoing they found a note and its unclear which of them it was for. Joining me is Kimberly Dozier of the daily beast. Good morning to you. Good morning. Let me start with the basic question. How worrying is the fact that an alleged russian spy got really close, it raps, or attempted to to a Trump Campaign . What it shows us, if she was,
indeed, directed by the russian government as the u. S. Government is trying to prove, that russia understands the most important part of changing the mind of your opposition is to get to know people, to Build Relationships. They have several Different Levels of operative that reaches out in Different Countries to put forth the Russian Point of view. Where butina would fall is an agent of influence rather than an official spy and that is probably why the u. S. Government is not trying to make a case against her for espionage, but, instead, as than unregistered agent of foreign influence. In that role, what she would do is much like an Intelligence Officer, a diplomat, or a journalist, Build Relationships with her target audience. What i find interesting about this is there has been, you know, of course, no end of talk about russian meddling and we look at this as a cyberworld. This is very old school and sort
of classic in which we talk about the possibility of a person being used as a spy and a female spy in this way. President trump, as we know, does not seem to agree with his intelligence. You saw that very distinctly this week. And im wondering, im referencing, of course, the russian meddling what may be this forthcoming election, how does a Community Prepare or fight off these kind of attacks if the man in charge of the nation doesnt seem to be on board . Well, its tough for National Security professionals who are laboring in the trenches trying to track down russian spying and russian influence. But as they find these plots, and as they convince agents overseas to spy for them, to have the message coming from the top of the white house, that, oh, this is all a hoax. So its both embarrassing for the l