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investigation. and the fact that barr has been really the only voice speaking out on this has fed that perception. so with mueller now finally adding his voice, that will hurt the president s ability to continue this line of total exoneration, jim. especially when it s not true. doesn t match the facts. sarah westwood, thanks very much. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. top of the hour here. i am jim sciutto in new york. our breaking news, a bombshell in the making. robert mueller, the special counsel, who has not said a word in public since he took over the russia investigation two years ago this very month, is set to make a public statement, his first public statement one hour from now. this comes amid weeks of negotiations with the house judiciary committee over whether and how he will answer questions on the hill about the report that he submitted in march and will he take questions, will he take them in public? a lot of open questions there about the testimony. but ....
even more dire as government assistance only gets through in drips and drabs. i want to get jones welcome to do business asia and we start with the latest escalations in the strait of hormuz where to oil tankers were attacked earlier today one of them allegedly hit by a torpedo the brant crude price has been volatile since the attack hitting over $62.00 a barrel immediately often use of that attack emerged the strait of hormuz is one of the world s most strategically important choke points along the coast of iran almost a 3rd of all liquefied natural gas and almost 20 percent of global oil production has to squeeze through here to escape the persian gulf and get out into the well it s. often more on the impact there on all markets so we re joined by early bazza financial market correspondent in frankfurt only what s this latest incident mean for the oil market. i think it s too early to tell what it means in the medium term in the long term talk to an analyst and he says the i ....
correct. you found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack hillary clinton s e-mail for the first time they did about five hours later, correct? that s correct. you found august 2 that mr. manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. kilimnik, gave him internal campaign strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. i m not certain of the tie. the fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the trump campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wikileaks releases of materials that were stolen from the democratic national committee, correct? is that from the report? yes. according to mr. gates. yes. thank you. you also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. had e-mail communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasin ....
investigation that july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack hillary clinton s email, something for the first time they did five hours later, correct? correct. and you also found that on august 2nd, mr. manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence. mr. kilimnik gave him internal campaign strategy aware that russia was intending to do a misinformation social media campaign. correct? not certain of the time. but the fact that that meeting. the meeting took place is accurate. and your investigation as i understand it, also found that in late summer of 2016, the trump campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wiki leaks releases of materials that were stolen from the democratic national committee, correct is it. is that from the report? yes, it s according to mr. gates. yes. thank you. you also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation that in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. had email communicat ....
we re following for you police have fired tear gas at protesters on the streets of hong kong is the 13th straight weekend of mass protests there thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators defied a police ban to march just a day after several protest leaders were arrested in a sweeping fact down. you re watching news coming up our documentary about charcoal the substance it s destroying the rain forest for fuel will come like the local environment thanks so much for joining us for news at the top to. come and follow the adventures of the famous naturalist and explore. jerusalem the racial politics on the fun while it s $250.00 the 1st day we re embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on t.w.a. . but. hardly anyone knows how nontransparent this market really is for that one tonne of charcoal requires 5 to 10 tons of wood and. this has an enormous impact on the environment. where the wood comes from this awful terrible human rights abuses as poverty as deforestation i ....