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Meanwhi meanwhile, the Syrian Government says this now marks a new phase of the war and promises that sitter ythe Syrian Military will confront the attacks from israel. Our or en lieberman is there. This was fired against Israeli Forces in Golan Heights. Israel was on height alert, right . This is between iran and israel in the skies above as we watched it happen. Israel was very ready for this to happen and has been for a number of weeks, if not months, now. Thats because there were a number of strikes in syria targeting syrian and Iranian Forces that they blamed on israel. Israel didnt comment on those strikes but prepared for a backlash. Over the last couple days, the idf knew the military was on high alert. Bomb shelters were prepped, though in the end they werent used. 20 rockets came over just after midnight. Israel said those were irani forces firing them. We saw surfacetosurface missiles, bomb fire and more. The Iranian Commission tried to make sure it didnt escalate here. The white house sitting in israels corner defending its right to protect itself. Netanyahu said, iran has crossed the line. Israel carried out several attacks against iran. Very much a warning from netanyahu not to continue the aggression. Having spoken with the israeli military, israel doesnt want to escalate at this point and neither does iran, according to assessments from the iran military. This may be over, but its incredibly tense and the night still young here, wolf. Lets go to tehran. Fred, whats been the reaction from the iranian government . Has iran said they did fire at Israeli Forces in the Golan Heights . Reporter no, wolf, they havent said that at all. In fact, theres been deafening silence here out of tehran. Its now past 9 30 in the evening here in the iranian capital and there still hasnt been recognition from the iranian side. Iran state media was reporting there were attacks on israeli territory. Some were hinting that it might have been skir mimishe srks bet syria and israel. They said they were still waiting for some form of statement coming from the iranian government. That hasnt happened yet. This also comes at extremely tense times in tehran. You have the escalation going on in the middle east and then of course you also have President Trump just yesterday backing out of the nuclear agreement, and thats something that certainly has a lot of folks here on the ground very concerned. You know, we went around tehran for the better part of today. We spoke to people. They said theyre very concerned about the Economic Situation of the currency here. The oil is really tanking, prices are skyrocketing and theyre seeing their country involved in that escalation in syria as well, and also increasingly being isolated economically by the United States, wolf. We go back to oren in Golan Heights. There was previous israeli attacks on some iranian supply operations inside syria, but this is the first time iran has watched rockets on israeli targets in Golan Heights. Is that directly related to the president s decision to walk away from it rthe iran nuclear . Not solely related but directly related in that it all fits in the same picture. There is no doubt that Prime Minister netanyahu with his presentation a week ago was very much trying to convince President Trump to pull out of the iranian deal, so even if the strikes were expected and ready, what we saw from trump, a decision to pull out of the iran deal, thats very much what netanyahu wanted to see, and youre absolutely right, wolf, it all points to the same picture, the growing tension between israel and iran. Well see if it dissipates or escalates. Thank you both. Well get back to you as this position unfolds. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Lets get your quick reaction. The regime of bashar assad is the relationship thats been going on for years there. What can you tell us about the attack between the israelis and the iranians . What we know here is the iranians have a foothold in syria. The iranians were very uncomfortable with that as iran got closer and closer to the Israeli Border with syria. This tension has been building for months now. We recognize that israel would take action if it felt that its security was being compromised. The decision was made by the israelis that they had to defend themselves and they took action. So i think it has to deal with the fact that the iranians are advancing in syria and have territory in syria that is very much puts israel at risk. The israelis are also deeply concerned about hezbollah forces, not only in lebanon but syria as well backed by the iranians. Russia is calling for restraint right now, given their relationship with syria, the iranians and israel right now. Is russia set up to become the key peacemaker right now . Well, russia certainly caused a lot of the problems in syria, particularly in supporting the assad regime. They created the vacuum that has allowed iran to have their influence in syria. Certainly russia could play a very positive role by bringing about a process that would bring peace among the warring factions in the civil war with syria without allowing iran to get a foothold in syria. That should certainly be part of the u. S. Role in whatever happens in syria. Let me switch gears for a moment while i have you, senator. Your colleague, the arizona senator john mccain, he is urging senators to vote against the confirmation of gina haspel to become the next cia director. He states the fact that she wont say if torture that she oversaw the enhanced interrogation techniques were immoral. Heres the questioning yesterday. Listen to this. Its a yes or no answer. Do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were i am mor immoral . Im not asking if you believe they were illegal, im asking if you think they were immoral. I believe the cia did all to prevent another attack on this country given the legal tools we were allowed to use. Please answer yes or no. Where do you stand now in gina haspels nomination . I think that exchange is very, very troublesome. We want the director of the cia to be very clear about American Values and about moral leadership. So i think that question was very, very troublesome. Senator mccain, im reading the material that he has sent to all of us in regards to this nominee. Im also reviewing today classified information before i make my final judgment. But i share these concerns. Which way are you leaning right now . Well, i think ill withhold giving you the direct answer to that, but i can tell you im very troubled by these a role in these ens r enhanced techniques, whats now known as torture and her role is the destruction of the taping of these sessions. If at the highest level those decisions were changed, how does she feel about these issues . Should america participate in any circumstances in the use of methods that are torture, and the answer to that should be no, we wont participate in torture. Senator cardin, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Good to be with you. Were including pertinent new details of Michael Cohen, the president s longtime personal attorney and just how aggressively the president s new attorney tried to capitalize off this Client Success in the election. Mark your calendar, on june 12, President Trump and kim jongun will come face to face in singapore for a truly historic summit involving Nuclear Weapons. 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With domo we can run this place together. Well thats thats your job i guess. We now have insight into how Michael Cohen, the president s longtime personal attorney, socalled fixer, made millions of dollars by promising access to his client, the president. One source tells cnn that after the election cohen immediately began shopping himself around. A republican strategist said his sales pitch went Something Like this, quote, i dont know who has been representing you, but you should fire them all. Im the guy you should hire. Im closest to the president. Im his personal lawyer, closed quote. At least four companies took the bait, including one tie to a putin ally. All in all the Companies Paid Cohen around 2 million. Its important to note that cohen hasnt been accused of any wrongdoing, but the new methods do raise questions about whether one of the president s closest confidantes illegally pitched business. So far at least two Companies Say theyve cooperated with the special counsel and cnn has exclusively learned that Robert Muellers team interviewed the russian about payments his u. S. Affiliate made. He reached out to the president s attorney, rudy giuliani, this morning. He doubts the president knew about payments to cohen. He added, ill only get concerned about it if somebody says it involves the president. So far theyre not saying that, closed quote. With me to discuss all of this, cnn political analyst and veteran journalist, carl bernste bernstein. You just heard the explanation of what the sides are saying. What do you think . Thats quite a list. I think we need to look at cohen and his connections to russians, particularly the russian named in this latest round to whom his slush fund, his secret account, that is to say, cohens received hundreds of thousands of dollars from someone connected probably to vladimir putin. Tha thats the thing we ought to be looking at more than anything. Because this whole idea that the president of the United States and others, his republican supporters, keep saying no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. In fact, one reason that there is an open case about collusion, from what we know from investigators, from others, is because of these constant contacts with russians among those around the president , including his fixer and his lawyer, Michael Cohen. And what the prosecutors in new york may have as a result of the raids that you just pointed out on cohen and his idevices and his computer. He had a connection with one of the American Companies who was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Michael Cohen. More than mr. Daxemburg, mr. Cohen has a lot of ties to mob russians, to put it mildly, business deals with russians. What im trying to get at is this idea of the president and his surrogate saying no collusion is a bit of a ruse to undermine the investigation of mueller. The whole reason we need an independent investigation is so many people, mr. Manafort, mr. Gates and on and on around donald trump, including his soninlaw, have dealings with russians that we need to look at in terms of what happened in the campaign, what happened that made the president of the United States or president elect say, yeah, well do away with sanctions that mr. Putin would like removed, et cetera. This is time for serious investigation, not political undermining of the special prosecutors investigation which mr. Giuliani and the president of the United States are determined to do. He has defended Michael Cohen in the past. He described the fbis raid, which had a court order against cohens home, his office as breakins. How do these payments, if at all, alter the dynamics of that relationship . We dont know. Obviously that there is a lot of thought that cohen is facing perhaps an awful lot of time in the slam, to put it mildly, for many, many of his activities, and there is a desire among prosecutors in the southern district, i believe, that perhaps he will break and talk about what he knows in his relationship with the president of the United States. He was his fixer, he was his emissary in many business dealings. But whats really so extraordinary so far is what the republicans in congress have done in terms of Blind Loyalty to mr. Trump instead of saying, hey, we need to get to the bottom of what might have happened with a foreign power undermining our election through some of these people, perhaps including, if the evidence is exculpatory, lets put it aside and say, hey, trump, those around him did not do this. But let me try one equation on people who are watching this. Supposing this were Hillary Clinton, not donald trump, and it were her fixer, mr. Cohen, not trumps fixer. And it were her Michael Flynns and her Paul Manaforts and her roger stones. There would be a human cry from the republicans on the hill to put her in leg irons. Forget about an independent counsels investigation. If Hillary Clinton had done anything like what weve seen alleged here, there would be a sack sacrisanct that republicans would never allow to be touched. We would be quick to judge current republicans and what they did in a presidency when the president of the United States was perhaps involved in some kind of collusion, and we cannot get out of it unless this investigation moves forward. Its interesting, Robert Muellers team interviewed two of the companies that were paying Michael Cohen 200,000 six months ago, that he was well aware of what was going on. The Vice President , mike pence, was on tv earlier this morning saying, you know what . Its time to wrap this whole investigation up. Listen to this. In the interests of the country, i think its time to wrap it up. And i would very respectfully encourage the special counsel and his team to bring their work to completion. He wants Robert Mueller to bring his work to conclusion. The Vice President of the United States, with all due respect to the office, this Vice President is a total sycophant for donald trump, hes a surrogate, there is no reason to put any faith in his word in terms of this particular investigation. He knows very little, if anything. Hes out of the loop. Look, this is a critical moment in american history. Is the rule of law going to prevail . Are we going to have accountability to the president of the United States, or are we going to have a legitimate investigation undermined by republican members of congress and by those around the president and his supporters . One would hope that even his base, which is everything in terms of his politics, in terms of how he goes after the press because he understands that we are meat to his base, and that is his hope of survival if the facts here turn out to be really nefarious and deleterious to his future, we need this information to go forward and enough undermining and enough people in some of the media fox, for instance. They are great reporters at fox. There are a number of them. They are beginning to report whats really going on in this investigation. And Rupert Murdoch who owns fox, his wall street journal has done some of the greatest reporting that every day the president of the United States and his spokesman put into the category of fake news. None of this is fake news. This is something that all America Needs to be concerned about and keep their eye on. Carl bernstein, thanks so much for joining us. Good to be here. Up next the date and location set for the highly anticipated facetoface meeting between kim jongun and President Trump. We have new details. Sto plus, stunning pictures coming out of north korea. Mike pompeos 13day visit to the rogue nation. Were going inside that meeting. Stay with us. Needles. Essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr. A oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. Xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. Xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. Dont start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. Tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. 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We very much appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting and we sort of understood that we would be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting, and he was nice in letting them go before the meeting. Frankly, we didnt think this was going to happen and it did. The release of the american detainees followed a 13hour visit to north korea by secretary of state mike pompeo. We are now learning new details about the trip which included a 90minute facetoface meeting between pompeo and kim jongun. They discussed plans of the summit with President Trump. Our correspondent Christian Amanpour is joining us from london. Christiane, the date is set, the detainees are now back on american soil. Could the u. S. Be headed to a breakthrough in relations with north korea . I believe that is putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. It is great news those americans were freed. They should have been freed a long time ago. We all know regimes like this take americans and other foreigners. They do it to have leverage. And certainly they have done, according to President Trump, a goodwill gesture releasing them earlier than anticipated, but of course they never should have been arrested in the first place. That being said, it does soften the atmosphere around the upcoming summit. Both leaders want a good atmosphere going into the summit. And yet there is so much substance to be able to achieve before we know if a breakthrough has been made. Clearly, though, there is a big change in tone from what we were hearing from both leaders. Certainly ever since september, it really ramped up in he werer with the fire and fury, and rocket man, and kim responded in kind, and we thought they may be on the verge of a horrible confrontation, and then kim jongun starts to deescalate over the new year and make all sorts of outward gestures leading to the olympics in seoul and all the diplomacy thats come since then including the invitation to the president to come meet. How much leverage does this meeting have in singapore . Quite a bit of leverage. No matter how much kim jongun, which includes Nuclear Weapons and missiles that intelligence believes can reach the United States. This is something they have which iran does not have. But the u. S. Is much more powerful. And so the threat of getting into a war with the United States is one that north korea presumably does not want to engage in. However, what is dim jongun ready to put on the table . He keeps talking about denuclearization . What exactly does that mean . This is the real question. What are his intentions visavis just that aspect of it, denuclearization. What does he mean . Does he mean, you know, getting rid of all the things that i just mentioned right now, getting rid of his past program, getting rid of the program forever . Does he mean trying to drag the United States into a codenuclearization, which has been the north korean aim from the start. We dont know. We havent heard those kind of readouts if there have been any parameters set and issues sort of sorted out in the meetings with the secretary of state. So we dont really know. But President Trump needs to get more than just a promise of a freeze on Nuclear Tests or ballistic tests. Its better to have talk than war. Christiane amanpour, thank you very much for that. Coming up, the trump team has a message for the democrats who voted against the cia nominee, gina haspel. That message . Youre a sexist. We have details on the sudden embrace of the gender card. 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Is that coincidental or is that purposeful . Its very important to have women in these positions, but im not going to accept a false choice that you either accept a woman or you accept someone who has not admitted that torture is morally wrong. I think we can have both. Lets get to our guests, National Affairs correspondent john walsh and essy copeland. Oou youve written an oped. What do you think about it . Im offended by what sara sanders wrote. Im inclined to support gina haspel and im also a woman. On the one hand, what we conservatives is critical of liberals doing a lot is saying if youre a woman, you must support liberal or you must support xyz. We try not to do that and thats exactly what she was doing. But its also just flawed. There is nothing hypocritical with caring about womens empowerment, caring about National Security and asking tough questions of a woman who would take on a very high position. In fact, at worst its maybe partisan, at best its actually quite principled. Then the idea that you must to support womens empowerment, you have to support every woman and every policy position she has is just absurd. I agree that gina haspel is the most qualified person for this position. I wish sara sanders hadnt brought up the fact that shes a woman to prove it. Yeah, i think its incredibly condescending, wolf. She stands or falls on her merits. Shes very, very qualified but some democrats and republicans, notably john mccain, are worried she wouldnt say torture is immoral. I think the notion that feminism requires some kind of special pleading or get over your reservations, surrender your own moral judgment because someone is a woman, thats never conservative, liberal, feminist, thats never what women have been asking for. The argument shes trying to make with gina haspel being the most qualified women, then why say this is womens empowerment if you dont approve her . During the president ial campaign, the Trump Campaign frequently argued that women shouldnt necessarily feel obliged to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. Listen to kellyanne conway, what she said about all of this in 2016. I love using that word because its a word that the left and Hillary Clintons democrats love to impose if youre not in support of Hillary Clinton. If youre not in support of Hillary Clinton, youre a sexist. Hillary clinton was the most qualified candidate in the race for sure. Like her, hate her, whatever, that was certainly true. Its ridiculous. Someone at the rnc admitted in the daily beast today that its flat out trolling. They know theyre trolling democrats. They know theyre trying to shove peoples noses in their own arguments. They dont believe this for a minute, and i believe shes going to get a vote and its not going to matter that shes a woman, its going to be because she calls them immoral. They originally invited Monica Lewinsky to join in an event, then they learned that bill clinton would be there as well, so Town N Country d disinvited her. Bill clinton was there. They have since apologized to Monica Lewinsky saying, we apologize to Monica Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled. That sounds a little like there was some miscommunication. I think Town N Country made a decision that bill clintons attendance and Comfort Level at this event was more important than monicas attendance and whatever message she has. Just go through this weeks news with matt lawyer and Harvey Weinstein in the headlines, how tone deaf is it to think were still back in the 90s when bringing bill clinton to an event is more important than listening to a woman whose story was proven true 20 years ago and is still disrespected. And who was mocked and treated so poorly by both sides. Its so awful. Have an event, be adult. 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California values senator Dianne Feinstein were following breaking news from the u. S. Defense department. The pentagon has just released a report on the deadly ambush in niger. It concluded a series of failures led to the ambush. Barbara starr is reporting. There still seems to be confusion over the search for Sergeant La David Johnson. The search for Sergeant La David Johnson began immediately as it did with the other soldiers. There was a report that he could be over with the other soldiers at tongo tongo. It turned out to be an errant report. He ran 960 meters and ran a long way where he was last seen and made his last stance where he fought until end under a tree. Was there a delay in searching for him . What happened . They insisted there was no delay, even though the eightpage summary that they handed to reporters and it was only a summary of a 6,000 page report we have not seen. That summary said it did lead to some delays. This is only one of the many confusing items, still seven months after the ambush, seven months after four american soldiers and a number of nigerians lost their fight. There was confusion. The troops were separated, the rescue and medevac forced took hours to get in there. The real question is what were they doing there in the first place . They are not authorized to be in combat, not authorized to be going after highvalue targets. That was one of their missions during this entire twoday episode. Confusion all around. Perhaps equally disturbing now they say theyre going to fix a number of problems that troops now in this area will be given the ops tion of Armored Vehicle and better weapons, all of this seven months after four americans died. They better learn some important lessons to make sure it doesnt happen again. Thank you for that report. With a possible showdown looming between congress and the justice department, two lawmakers were given a special briefing on Robert Muellers investigation. Devon nunes and chairman trey gowdy were briefed. They left the d. O. J. Just a few moments ago. Nunes has threatened justice officials with contempt of Congress Charges which led to this from the Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. I can tell you the different people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. Here with me is our legal and National Security analyst. How unusual, asha, is a briefing like this . I think whats unusual is the circumstances under which its happening. We have an Ongoing Investigation right now. Congress obviously has broad oversight authority. Typically theyre looking at something after an investigation has concluded. What we have right now is the department of justice pushing back and saying this is going to threaten National Security and may get one of our sources killed if we give you this information. And its also not really happening in the context of a full congressional investigation. That was ostensibly concluded with republicans issued the report. I think all of this makes this somewhat out of the ordinary. We know adam schiff, the Ranking Member of the house intelligence committee, he separately, were told, is going to be briefed on this. I think theyre going to be trying to come up with some negotiation compromise where they can satisfy congresss request while still preserving the National Security concerns. You need to remember, wolf, its not just about the danger to the source in this particular case. This impacts the fbi and cias ability to gather sources generally. They have to assure people that the fbi, cia, the government will protect them and this is sending a strong message for all kind of cases to these sources that the government may not be able to do that for them. Its pretty important for justice to find some middle ground here i think. Whats extraordinary is that devon nunes has threatened the attorney general, jeff sessions, with contempt unless he does what they want him to do. The white house is backing jeff sessions. Speaker ryan seems to be backing the Republican Leadership of the house intelligence committee. Does todays briefing you think bring this fight to an end . I hope so. This is going to be a separation of powers clash. Again, you have different interests from different branches of government. Ideally you dont want to compromise National Security. You also dont want to see the head of the department of justice go to jail for contempt. So they should be able to find a middle ground, i hope. And also i hope that to the extent that these members of congress are accommodated that there wont be a leak because of apparently how sensitive this information is. Especially if the release of what they described as the most sense it ha sensitive informa of sources could lead to the death and we know what happened in salisbury, england that russia not above going after people who are helping other intelligence agencies. So i think the threat is very real here. Thank you, asha, for your excellent help. Coming up, pay to play . We have new details. Plus fierce of war as israel and iran strike each other in the wake of President Trumps decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. Were going live to the region. Hi there. Im Brianna Keilar in for brooke baldwin. New details on President Trumps personal attorney was peddling his access to the president. We now know Michael Cohen received more money than reported and his sales pitch was more aggressive than initially known. 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