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being on. let s reset at the top of the hour now. i m anderson cooper. thank you for joining us. we re following two major breaking stories that the hour. the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. and i m wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. the other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. a lot to get you up to date on in this hour. president obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the airline crash in the ukraine. the priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be ....
we are as americans. reporter: but moments later a stockily different take on an exploding crisis. children crossing the border to the u.s. alone, illegally. they should be september back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults are in their families. reporter: she s speaking out of both sides of her mouth. if you want the immigrant community to see you as a champion, you re going to have to make difficult choices and take a firm position. it didn t seem that way yesterday. reporter: then there s benghazi. the attack that killed four americans on clinton s watch. republicans say she still has a lot of explaining to do so this was music to gop ears. there are still unanswered questions. it was the fog of war. republicans convinced benghazi is clin clinton s achilles heel wasted no time saying she s the one who must answer questions. secretary clinton from the beginning has stone walled on this rather than acting as a partner getting to the bottom ....
another seems to open. enter, the new york times front page story of a secret plan by trump associates said to be backed by kremlin about the armed conflict with russian allied forces within its own borders. in other words, while the fbi s investigating an alleged back channel during the election between russia and the trump campaign, there may be another previously undisclosed back channel between russia and known trump associates. but before we dive into the times report, a little context. throughout the entire russia controversy, the president has repeatedly denied having any russian business ties. i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don t have any deals in russia. russia is fake news. russia is fake news. but that s a relatively recent claim. in 2008, for instance, donald trump jr. told an interviewer, russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, say in dubai and certainly with our project in soho. we see a lot ....
talked to his attorney general yet. that s right. reporter: i had a chance to catch up with kellyannec conway. i asked her whether or not the president views this decision as some sort of set back or defeat. she didn t exactly answer that question, but here s what she had to say. this is a defeat? do you see this as a setback? he sees it as the statute provides a president with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and protect the nation s national security. this was not argued on the merits. now that we ll have an opportunity to argue on the merits, we look forward to doing that. i think his tweet was perfect when he said, we ll see you in court. there you go. some confidence being expressed by kellyanne conway at the white house. not a lot new in terms of arguments being laid out by the white house in response to this, just the very tough talk that we re going to see you in court. that is not exactly going to win the day at the supreme court. i asked kel ....
your government and the united states government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. did you feel that you ve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since you ve had those discussions with secretary tillerson? we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. and they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. we discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. we do think it s important that assad s departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so achieved. this is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. but i think the longer time goes by, it s p ....