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Some of the persistent questions expressed by official investigators and two generations of conspiracy theorists. a cnn exclusive we'll go inside north korea's capital where kim jong-un's regime has launched the shocking propaganda campaign in which daily life revolves around patriot of america. i'll speak with former defense secretary leon panetta. and correspondents, analysts and specialists, they will have full coverage of the today's top stories. let's begin with president trump's emergency declaration on the opioid crisis. our senior white house correspondent jeff zelny is joining us. t...

Correspondent jeff zelny was in the room, jeff, kelly was strongly defending the president and attempting to end the entire controversy. did he? >> reporter: wolf, the controversy changed today when john kelly walked in the briefing room. you could feel the emotion in the room, see it on his face and hear it in his voice. he was speaking not only as the white house chief of staff, but as a four star marine general and a gold star father himself whose son died in afghanistan seven years ago. wolf, he blasted the florida congresswoman at the center of all of this. he did not though address the p...

Specific questions about the niger ambush, what were the troops doing there, he said they were helping the local forces, but he did confirm there was an investigation under way by the pentagon of course, he said that does not mean that there was anything wrong necessarily, he said but they must find out what happened and why. >> try to make sure it doesn't happen again. jeff zelny reporting for us at the white house, thank you. this controversy over the president's calls to families of fallen troops began with the deaths of these four u.s. servicemen in niger two weeks ago. today the defense s...

Forever. so the white house chief of staff was asked specifically about that, it was exactly after it, he said the first responders in fema will not be there forever, john kelly also asked if the president believes the residents of puerto rico are americans, jake, he said they do, but he did not distinguish why the call was made for puerto rican rescuers to leave and not florida or texas. >> american citizens since 1917, jeff, thank you so much. president trump announced that there would be some very important news from a country that once quote totally disrespected the united states. we got t...

I am told the relationship was repaired somewhat, wolf, but this is an incredibly interesting new detail about what angered the president so much about one of his long time supporters. one of his first supporters in the republican senate, jeff sessions. explosive new details in a in that "new york times" report. >> it says it wasn't just a one on one meeting in the oval office, there were other aids president when the president berated him. jeff, the outcome of the dinner they had last night, the president and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, certainly has stunned a lot of washington. what's th...