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Moscow. fred, do you see the president trolling, saying release the conversation perhaps because he knows it might be embarrassing? >> i assume trolling the u.s. president, trolling the u.s. government but in a certain way standing by president trump's side. it's very interesting. he had a panel he was a part of at the russian energy week where he made these remarks. he say -- he's a former kgb officers -- many things could come to light anyway. he said with the he'lsinki protocol there, he said to them to release them because he believes there's nothing in there damaging to president trump an...

Of fact, the president's son-in-law took some of this on. the president says all you care about is your friends in mexico because jared kushner had developed some relationships with people on the other side of the border. the president said i've had it. i want it done at noon tomorrow, which fortunately didn't happen. they were able to ask him to at least give them a week to figure something else out. >> okay. joe johns, thank you very much for that reporting. this is just in to cnn. russian president vladimir putin responding to the scandal over president trump's call with the president of ...

Republican army halted its campaign against british rule. next prince charles will visit the site where his great uncle lord mountbatton was killed by an i.r.a. bomb in 1979. >> nine suspects are under arrest in connection with london's so-called hatten garden jewel heist. last months thieves drilled into a safe deposit company vault and got away with undisclosed amount of gems and cash. fred plankin has details on the raid that led to arrests. >> reporter: another remarkable twist in what was one of the biggest heists in recent history. police say they have nine people in custody. they didn't...

The amount of tents you see there on tahrir square that people are really digging in for the long run, martin. >> and so what's the strategy on the part of the government, then, fred? i presume then that mubarak and the vice president simply think that they can last longer than the protests can? >> well, that seems to be part of it but on the other hand they certainly at least are trying to give the impression that they're making a sort of reconciliation and sort of making advances toward the protesters. there was an announcement today by the vice president that apparently mubarak had signed a...

What the government is saying, martin. >> and it all has remained peaceful today. right, fred? >> it certainly has. it certainly all has remained peaceful. if you describe the mood down there it's sort of like a festival kind of mood that we're seeing down there. certainly people are still very aware of the fact that there's quite a serious protest but at the same time you have artists down there. you have people with guitars and drums making music. you have a lot of people with banners so certainly the emotions are very festive down there. it seems as though this is at the heart of very, very...