The president expected to speak soon about the release of this american man from a jail in venezuela, joshua holt. What is the white house saying about him . So far the president has only said that hes looking forward to meeting joshua holt. Hes said to arrive here at the white house at approximately 7 00 p. M. Officials have told cnn that the president has alerted aides that he wants them to prepare for an oval Office Statement to come around that time. On the venezuelan side, we received a statement from the minister of communications saying that the president of that country, nicolas maduro, instructed his government to give joshua holt and his wife a measure of benefit in their release. Whats still unclear is exactly how his communications, how these negotiations perhaps between he and tennessee senator bob corker unfolded. We learned today that corker met with maduro just yesterday and the release is notable because of the timing. Just about a week ago, there was an election in venezuela. Maduro won another sixyear term. And officials, american lawmakers including Vice President mike pence, called that election a sham. There was speculation and reporting about possible sanctions being imposed on venezuela. You also have the expulsion of two american diplomats from that country. And within the last 48 hours you had the expulsion of some venezuelan diplomats from the United States. So its unclear exactly how the release of joshua holt came about, though it appears to be a sign of good faith from the venezuelan government at a time where tensions between the two countries are very high, ryan. Boris sanchez live at the white house. Lets now go to Paula Hancocks in seoul. Paula, the two Korean Leaders, moon jaein and kim jongun, their meeting today seemed to be a surprise for everyone. Why the secrecy, and do we know anything about what they talked about . Reporter well, ryan, it really did take everybody by surprise. This is the second meeting between these two leaders in a month. It was at the dmz, the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea on the northern side of the dmz this time around. It was the Southern Side before. A symbolic message there. What we know so far is fairly limited. Were being told by the blue house there was a Frank Exchange of views and clearly one of the top agendas would have been that potential meeting between President Donald Trump and the north Korean Leader kim jongun. So certainly president moon has been the one who has been driving this all along. He has really staked his claim and his credibility getting the americans and the North Koreans to the negotiating table, so certainly this is a key moment for him. Hell be having a press conference in about four hours time. Were hoping to hear a lot more at that point about what happened. And crucially, who asked for this meeting, who pushed for it. If it was the north korean side, it certainly shows they are willing to keep negotiating. If its the south korean side, it shows they are trying to keep this together, so that will be the key question. Paula hancocks live in seoul, Boris Sanchez at the white house, thanks to both of you. Joining us, former top nuclear adviser to president obama, Fgary Seymour and cnn Global Affairs analyst kimberly dozier. Kim, lets start with you. This is a second gesture of good faith from a country thats hostile to the United States. What do you think is driving this . They had left an avenue open to President Trump even as they were protesting the comments from Vice President pence and from bolton earlier. They very carefully didnt go all the way to the top with their critique. I think they were possibly a bit surprised when President Trump did pull out of this, but what you see is the two sides setting the left and right of their negotiation postures and also the North Koreans reminding everyone that they believe that they are coming to these talks from a position of strength as a nuclear power, as theyve called themselves in public statements, not as u. S. Administration officials have been portraying them, desperate because of sanctions and coming to the table begging. All right. Gary, lets talk about venezuela and the release of this prisoner. How much credit should President Trump get for both this prisoner release and also those three hostages that were released recently by north korea . Well, i can speak to the north korean situation. I mean, two of these were people that were snatched by the North Koreans after President Trump took office. And its typical behavior for the North Koreans to grab some americans which they can later use in a gesture or give away in order to improve relations at the right time. So i think it was a very cynical and calculating move on the part of the North Koreans in order to set the stage for what they hope will be the summit coming up. So lets talk about the summit, then, gary. I mean, who do you think is winning in the back and forth here between the white house and north korea . So i think both President Trump and chairman kim jongun really want this meeting. And im not at all surprised that after what looked like a temporary break, when President Trump said that he was calling off the meeting, im not at all surprised that it now looks like its back on track. I think for both men this is a historic meeting. Im not sure the summit is going to resolve the fundamental disagreements between the u. S. And north korea on denuclearization, but i think it will start a negotiation process which may produce some results in months or years ahead. So i dont see this really as one side or the other winning. I think theyre both winning because they both want the meeting. Kim, the president seems to insist this meet canning happen on june 12th. There was a background briefing with reporters. It was a National Security adviser to the president that told reporters essentially that it was impossible to plan it that quickly. Can it happen . Can they pull this off by june 12th . Yeah. I was on that call, too, listening to that Senior Administration official saying when he was asked, can you pull this off, hes like, oh, june 12th is like in 12 minutes in terms of the kind of negotiations that have to happen. But i think whats going to happen instead is everyone lowers their expectations of what can be accomplished at that meeting and it becomes basically all for the optics, all to just get the two men at the table, and actually that could be useful because in north korea only chairman kim can make the decision on giving up some of these things, some of these programs, so maybe they can lay out the framework and then technocrats can take it from there. Gary seymour, kimberly toez i dozier, thank you for your discussion. At tmobile, we dont just see uniforms. We see the people behind them. So were committed to helping veterans through job training when their service ends. And to hiring 10,000 veterans and military spouses to be part of our workforce in the next 5 years. Because no matter where you serve. Or when you serve. Tmobile stands ready to serve you. So we provide halfoff on all family lines for military. voowners always smiling . Ck because theyve chosen the industry leader. 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Now, you may remember earlier this month attorney general Jeff Sessions made the trump administrations stance clear saying, quote, if you cross the border illegally, your child will be separated from you. Well, after President Trumps tweet, congressman ted lew of congressman called out the president tweeting, quote, dear real trump, your Administration Made the policy change to separate children from their parents. The you dont have the courage to own up to it, then reverse it. Disgraceful and weak to blame others for your own evil policy. Congressm maman ted lew joins u now. Tell me how you really feel about this policy. Thank you, ryan, for your question. Let me first say as a father of two children i cant imagine having them ripped away from me. And for the government to lose track of them, thats unconscionab unconscionable. Donald trump needs to reverse this policy now. And how do we know its his own policy . Because attorney general Jeff Sessions announced it a few weeks ago. For the president to now blame democrats is disgraceful. He could change the policy right now if he wanted to. Is there a way for congress to do something . Could you put it into a statute and force his hand . The republicans control the house, the senate, and the white house, so republicans could move on this if they wanted to. Im calling on that gopcontrolled Judiciary Committee to at least hold hearings on it because we have oversight over the department of justice and this is a policy change made by attorney general Jeff Sessions. All right. Lets get to some other topics of the day. Top leaders in congress spoke with some top Intelligence Leaders to get the low dunn on the confidential source the fbi used to make contact with Trump Campaign members. It was to investigate any russian meddling in the u. S. Election. Now, there were two separate classified briefings held thursday. There was one that was designed for republicans, the other for the democrats. But someone dropped by both of those meetings and that was a surprise visitor, the white house lawyer emmitt flood tasked with representing President Trump in the special counsel investigation. Congressman lieu, do you think it was appropriate for president s attorney to attend these two classified Justice Department briefings with lawmakers . Not at all. That was highly inappropriate. Ordinary americans who are the subject, the target of investigations dont get to see the evidence against or the sources against them during the investigation. So for the president s own lawyer to show up to these meetings is highly inappropriate. And i dont even know why they had to have two separate meetings, one for republicans, one for democrats. They should have briefed both parties at the same time. Otherwise, what are they telling devin nunez theyre not telling the democrats . Should the democrats have walked out of the meeting when they saw emmitt flood there . No. I think its always important to stay engaged and to be present at the meetings. But lets just take a step back here. There is nothing wrong with the use of confidential informants by Law Enforcement or counterintelligence units. Im a former prosecutor. The use of inform fant sinforma necessary. You signed a let they are week, congressman, that democrats on the house Judiciary Committee sent to President Trump. I want to read part of it. You wrote, we write to advise you stop stalling, sop blaming t the investigation for your political troubles and submit to an interview with mueller, the special counsel, rather than casting unfounded accusations against your own Justice Department or seeking to expose a confidential informant at great risk to his or her safety and interNational Security. We urge you to let the Justice Department do its work while you do yours. Congressman, given the tone and attitude of this letter, do you think President Trump will take this seriously and will even read your letter . I do expect that the white house will lead letters from the Judiciary Committee members, but look at the actions of the president. It doesnt take a prosecutor to know that those are not the actions of an innocent person. An innocent person would not be scared of going to an interview, wouldnt be trying to obstruct the investigation at every turn. An innocent person would simply let the investigation play out because that person would not be scared of what the investigation would reveal. Do you think that i mean, there could be some criticism of this if this is just a political move on behalf of you and your colleagues on the Judiciary Committee. I mean, if you truly wanted the president to cooperate with the special counsel, wouldnt there be a way to do it that wasnt so confrontational . We have tried a lot of ways do it. Weve tried to have our gop colleagues on the Judiciary Committee work with us. They wont even hold a single hearing on any of the important issues over which the Judiciary Committee has oversight, such as the department of justice and the fbi, so we thought this was the only choice we have. What is your hope that the ultimate impact of this letter will be . Do you think theres a chance it will even change President Trumps mind even one iota, especially as it relates to having an interview or sitting down for an interview with Robert Mueller . Ive learned not to predict how the president of the United States acts or thinks, but i do know that an innocent person would not be scared of going to an interview. All right. Congressman, i want to play an exchange with secretary of state mike pompeo this week. This was the same day that President Trump tweeted about a criminal deep state trying to sabotage his presidency. Take a listen. Do you believe there is a criminal deep state at the state department . I havent seen the comments of the president. I dont believe theres a deep state at the state department. Thats your experience also when you interact with colleagues at the fbi and the department of justice as well . Yes. There are always exceptions to every rule. Ive never led an organization that didnt have bad actors. I dont think any Government Organization is exempt from having malfeasance as well. But in general, youre confident that the members of the various agencies are honoring their oaths to the United States constitution . Yeah. In general, yes, sir. Congressman, that was of course your line of questioning. Were you surprised by the way the secretary of state answered . Not at all. Mike pompeo was a former cia director. If he thought there was some sort of criminal deep state, he would have been talking about it and hed be trying to root that out. But there isnt one. The president of the United States seems to think that just because hes being investigated somehow this is a deep state. No. Its just federal employees honoring their oath to the u. S. Constitution. And lets be very clear here. Agents and prosecutors and all federal employees dont take an oath to the president. They take an oath to the United States constitution. Thats what everyone is following, and that means you investigate people and you find out if they did bad things. Congressman ted lieu, thank you for spending part of your memorial day weekend with us. I certainly appreciate your time, sir. Thank you, ryan. Coming up, democrats and republicans havent agreed on much lately except that the briefing by an fbi informant doesnt seem to back up the president s campaigns that his campaign was being spied upon. So why is trump unable to let go of this latest Conspiracy Theory . Well take a look at that next. vo dogs have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. 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However, he still offered absolutely no proof of this. In fact, lawmakers who attended classified Intelligence Briefings on the accusations say this week they saw no proof to support the president s claims either. Those lawmakers include Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Hes a republican. Mcconnell told npr after the briefings he still supports the special counsel investigation and that he wasnt shown any evidence that would make him feel otherwise. Spygate, this isnt the first time that President Trump has made a claim despite having zero proof of what hes alleging. When someone does this, when someone insists that something is true, even though facts show it is not, thats known as a falsehood or a lie, maybe a Conspiracy Theory. As i said, President Trump is no stranger to this. One of the first Conspiracy Theorys that the president ever created, that president obama, his predecessor, the first black president , was born in africa, not the United States. He ended up having to apologize for that one. Another Conspiracy Theory created by the president during his campaign that he saw thousands of residents in new jersey celebrate on 9 11. The president insisted that he saw this on tv. However, no footage remotely close to what the president described has ever been uncovered. The list does go on. As a candidate, trump parroted a Conspiracy Theory started by the National Enquirer that senator ted cruzs father was involved in the assassination of president john f. Kennedy. Again, no proof this is true. Were not done. Another conspiracy, after the election, the president began claiming that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally. He took this claim so far that he even created a commission on voter fraud. Guess what . That Commission Found no proof to support the president s wild assertions. And the president disbanded it earlier this year. Were not done with this list yet, folks. Stay with us. In november the president suggested that a wellknown msnbc host murdered a former intern 16 years earlier despite an autopsy finding no signs of foul play. And finally, in a claim much like this newly invented spygate, the president accused his predecessor, president obama, of wiretapping him. The Justice Department led by people President Trump appointed investigated these claims and found no evidence to support that. So amid all these conspiracies, one thing is clear the president , despite having access to incredible amounts of information, continues to make false, fictitious, and unsubstantiated claims. These are also commonly known as lies. He then orders investigations into these claims which are paid for by your tax colladollars. Whats unclear is why, and thats a question we should all be asking. So lets ask that now to my next guests. James gagliano and josh campbell, thank you for joining us. Josh, one of the reasons you left the fbi was because of attacks like this by the president. When you see Something Like this happening where hes accusing your former colleagues of spying on his campaign, how do you respond to that . Well, its interesting. Let me say at the outset i didnt retire. Jimmy retired. Im a former fbi agent. What we see in front of us is a sideshow that has been moved into the center ring. The problem is theyre trying to distract attention from the underlying investigation thats going on. The you think about what should be important here, it is the fact that a Foreign Hostile Intelligence Service attempted to interfere in the United States election. We should all be focusing on that. But instead what weve seen, weve seen this pattern where youre trying to discredit and distract by focusing on other things. If we look at this quote unquote spygate, which many of us are not using that term other than to quote him, there are two issues here the first being protection of sources and methods. This is something the fbi and the intelligence community, protecting sources and methods has long been sacrosanct. Jimmy and i have sat there trying to recruit people to come to the fbi, and to a person each time they want to know theyre going to be protected, the identity will be protected from disclosure, but this is a violation of that norm. Weve seen them bulldoze that in order for political benefit. The second issue is the idea of branding. We know what this is. This is this gaslighting weve continued to see where you take Something Like a lawful counterintelligence investigation and the use of an informant and make it seem sinister and you call him a spy. We see it for what it is. James, do you think the president really believes this conspiracy theories or is this just a marketing ploy . I do believe the president believes them, but let me quote mark twain real quick. Mark twain says patriotism is supporting your country all the time and supporting your government when it deserves it. We have an instance here during the 2016 campaign both campaigns were notified that russians were attempting to sew discord and med until our elections, both campaigns. The dnc elected not to give up their server and take a look at it, and the Trump Campaign had an inform fant, C James Comey ud it the other day, confidential source, and i want to break that down. There were a number of targets exceedingly difficult to run up against politicians or public servants, clergy, and the press. They require getting levels of approvals high up in the department of justice, and in this instance in the Trump Campaign it had to go to the white house and to the attorney general. Now, heres what we have. There was not a spy. Ill say this to the president. There was not a spy. A spy is someone who is attempting to steal state secrets and cause chaos inside of an entity or organization or enterprise. Im going to argue with josh and say this wasnt an informant. 99 of the informants we use are people inside an enterprise we talk to that provide information about criminal activity. This was an Agent Provocateur. I wont say his name even though its in the public realm because it e its not necessary to do so. This is an Agent Provocateur. They try to get them to talk about things and try to maybe suggest things. In the criminal realm we call that entrapment. Im not suggesting that here. Im suggesting what happened in the fbi and the department of justice might have been what we call confirmation bias mean weg get new information that comes in and in our mind that confirms theories had. We interpret the data that comes in in circular logic to confirm that, and that might have been what happened here. Good people are doing the investigations, but the decisions up top to do this to a president ial campaign, not both campaigns, when both were targeted by the russians, but one campaign, definitely suspect. I would say with respect that there is simply no way we know thats true because my opinion. Right. If you think about how inf m informants are worked, the allegation has been, and this is the most serious issue, i think, an informant, a spy, whatever you want to call him, was used, but the president and his allies are saying it was used for political purposes, which is a serious allegations and an allegation on which there are no facts to base that. Thats a serious issue. Another problem is for those who have worked with informants we know theyre run by the ground level agents who recruit them. In the fbi, supervisors cant run informants. It has to be those gs13 and below agents. I would assume that moves up to the president of the United States. Its not as if president obama let me just say that with that said, it would be a line agent running them, it is inconceivable that if there was someone at the director or Deputy Director level trying to infiltrate for political purposes they would then convince a linelevel agent to do that. I agree with josh there. You have a confidential human source i will term an Agent Provocateur that is then butted up against Christopher Steele and the dossier. The confidential source is sent there at the direction of the fbi. Steele, the dossier, the dossier comes back to the fbi, bingo. Theres your circle there. It wasnt that there was information inside the campaign that was coming out suggesting that there were people that were colluding with the russians. It was us running somebody there. Ive seen this we dont know that. We dont know that . We dont. We certainly do because there is a chronology. Youre telling me you know for a fact this person was actively corrupting chuck ross wrote a story for the daily column which the New York Times and the Washington Post have since reported on. It says the exact same thing. Were getting a little too far into the weeds on this, guys. I guess the big problem here, and i think these issues will be hashed out that you guys are talking about, is that what the president is suggesting, this is beyond what youre suggesting, the circular logic, this was done with direct intent, there was a political motivation behind this. Can we have confidence that this Inspector General investigation its not as if this is in a vacuum somewhere and no one is looking into this. Can we have the confidence that the Inspector General investigation will root this out and well get these answers . Absolutely. Just like with the trump russia the Robert Mueller investigation. I believe it needs to run its course. The Inspector General report thats going to come out i believe it needs to run its course. Thats where well learn these lessons. Yes, were trying to read judicial tea leaves, and i agree with josh on that, but those things need to operate unimpeded. And this has to be the focus, too, if you look at the i. G. Report. Weve seen the president make an allegation without basis in in fact and of course it has to be looked in into because at the end of the day uts about Public Opinion and confidence in Law Enforcement. Im saying thats a dangerous place to be if every time a politician makes an accusation we send investigators out. Josh, jim, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Still to come, youll hear how former acting attorney general sally yates is responding to the president s baseless accusations that there was a spy in his campaign and two white house lawyers present at a classified briefing. 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And tonight on an allnew axe files, yates weighs in on the baseless accusation. Heres a preview. How do you react to that implication that spies were sent in at the direction of the Obama Administration . Yeah, well, youre right, its under investigation now, and i think i have to leave it to this department of justice and fbi to make decisions about what information theyre going to publicly release, so i cant really comment on that specific allegation. Not specifics but what about the general sense that this was a politically inspired investigation . Again, im not going to speak to this specific one, but i will say this. I was with doj for 27 years, and i can tell you that the men and women of the department of justice take the responsibility very seriously. Investigations there are done based on the facts and the law and not based on politics. And im confident that that will be the result of this investigation as well. Cnns anna cabrera sent down with David Axelrod to learn more about tonights interview. David, yates seemed very diplomatic in her answer about these accusations of spying. What was your takeaway . Well, first of all, i would say she was very lawyerly. She feels very strongly about the rule of law and legal norms and democratic norms, so she is very careful not to get too out in front of her skis. But as the conversation ensued it was very, very clear that she believed what the president had done was an outrageous infringement of the rule of law. She said no president should use the law as a sword to go after his enemies or a shield to protect himself. And she felt that it was inappropriate for him to ask the Justice Department to essentially probe the probe in the middle of this investigation. And she also you know, what was interesting about the interview, anna, was that she knows all these people. As she mentioned, 27 years in the Justice Department. She knows rosenstein. She knows chris wray. She knows Robert Mueller. And her insights into these players was very, very interesting. She has great confidence in them. She completely rejects the notion that this is inspired as that this was a partisaninspired investigation. And she was, you know, very, very clear that she thinks rosenstein that the president might be trying to force some sort of confrontation to remove rosenstein from that position. But it did seem like she was hesitant to fully say or speak her mind, and yet what you just said is she is passionate about the department of justice, the players who are there and feels like they are there for a reason or doing a job that she believes is righteous. So why do you think she was so hesitant to criticize how this administration has handled some of their duties . Well, it was interesting. She absolutely believes that she should not in the midst of the investigation be commenting on details of it because she was a Deputy Attorney general at the time that this investigation k witness to some of the events. We know she went and told the white house about mike flynns lie to the Vice President because the government knew what he had said to the Russian Ambassador back at the beginning of the administration. So she is involved in this case, and that has caused her to be somewhat hesitant. She also said, interestingly, about jim comeys book and comeys sort of flamboyant intrusion into this whole discussion in recent weeks that that was something she would not have done, that that wasnt that she didnt think she wouldnt have felt comfortable, you know, doing what he did. So this speaks to her reticence about this. But in between the lines it is very, very clear what she thinks about what the white house has done here, and its very clear that shes concerned about the longterm impact on the department of justice and the fbi. Just as we, seeing President Trumps attorney in the investigation, emmitt flood, attend at least the beginning of two classified briefings involving the investigation into russias involvement with the president s campaign or potential involvement. A number of lawmakers reportedly saw floods appearance there as inappropriate, at least a republican staffer told cnn, quote, its the craziest bleep i have ever heard. Do you think, david, flood should have been at these meetings . No. I think this was an effort to try and send a message to wray, to rosenstein that the white house is going to use its weight to compel them to turn over to congress the things that congress wants. And it was inappropriate. And obviously, the issues at hand here affect the president. He is part of this probe. And for his lawyer to be there and have potentially even be in a room where evidence is being discussed at this stage in the investigation is inappropriate. So, you know, i suspect Rudy Giuliani said the president wanted him there, the president may have called the shot, be, from the standpoint of what is appropriate, it was a big mistake. This week we also learned Jared Kushners security clearance was restored. Do you think that means intelligence agencies believe he is not a Security Risk . Hard to say, anna, because i dont know what the special counsel has communicated about his investigation. Bob mueller is an unusual character in that whole operation in washington in that its kind of a leakfree environment, and clearly he doesnt want others leaking either. So i dont know what he told the reviewing authorities about jared kushner. I mean, obviously, its a good thing for kushner to get past that hurdle. 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