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And president trump meeting with the japanese prime minister at mar-a-lago. good evening, we begin with breaking news out front on this friday, we have learned new information into allegations raised in a collection of memos, created by that former british intelligence agent. jim sciuto has been working on this story, breaking it at that time president trump had been briefed on this summary memo. what have you learned tonight? >> reporter: for the first time u.s. investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in that 35-page dossier compiled by a former british in...

I respect you. there its nobody i respect more. you are going to do a fantastic job. and we are going to start winning again and you are going to be leading the charge. >> jim sciuto joins us now as well as the panel. strong reaction from former cia director john brennan. >> strongly worded statement, former little more than 24 hours. former cia director brennan is deeply saddened and angered at donald trump's despicable display of self aggrandizement in front of the cia memorial wall of agency heroes. brennan says trump should be ashamed of himself. it's remarkable, it gets to that point that...

The opinion of the american people lie. i want to talk more about what the president has talked a lot about and that is crowd size, his white house spoke person, sean spicer came out and said you're wrong, there were more people at the inauguration, but here's what our jim sciuto tweeted that a lot of people are talking about today. forget crowd estimates, what happens when something happens that actually matters, north korean missiles fired, because the facts do not back up what sean spicer said and they are not alternative facts, they are just facts. what do you make of jim's point here? >> ...

>> the president also reacting to the attack at the ft. lauderdale airport. we're also following another breaking story, release of the intelligence report on russian cyber meddling in the u.s. presidential election. u.s. intelligence has conclude that russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign, that's what they call it aimed at hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trump. let's go to our national chief correspondent, jim sciuto. the report says this is all part of president putin's ongoing effort to undermine -- >> that's something they determined with confidence mont...

They targeted not just the democratic party but also the republican party made that clear and yet the releases largely targeted just one candidate. the democrat hillary clinton. they targeted both parties, might have stolen material from both parties but only released it on one and that's what's led them to the conclusion as to what the intention of this attack was. >> our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. thanks very much. trump was briefed on the report before it was released. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is working that part of the story for us. you're ge...