Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. The white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. That countrys leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. Breaking overnight. A second meeting between north korea us kim jongun and President Trump could take place some time later this year. We have reports from tehran and hong kong. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. Nice to see you. Im phil mattingly. She is putting up with me all week. It is monday, august 6th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. President trump admitting during the 2016 president ial race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. On sunday, the president called the Trump Tower Meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. Adding i did not know about it. That tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. The president acknowledging for
Robert Mueller has, this was a meeting to get information from the Crown Prosecutor of russia on Hillary Clintons campaign. How is that legal . The question is how would it be illegal . The real question is would a meeting of that nature constitute a violation of the law. Reporter critics have pounced on this making the argument that the administration and president is moving the goal posts. We should point out despite a repeated number of calls from the president and his allies for this investigation to wrap up and in the words of Rudy Giuliani for Robert Mueller to put up or shut up, this investigation is moving forward. Last week, cnn reported that the Special Counsel is making efforts to interview one key person in that Trump Tower Meeting. Emin agalarov. The one that helped facilitate the meeting. The russian pop singer whose father has deep ties to Vladimir Putin. We do know that Robert Mueller
in intimidation. On friday, china vowed 60 billion of tariffs on u. S. Goods. Many related to agriculture. China plans to impose those tariffs if the u. S. Follows through with the tariffs threats on 200 billion in chinese goods. It worry iies investors. President trump depended the tariffs. He says they are Working Farber than anyone anticipated. By hurting the economy and bringing beijing to the negotiating table. Trump is not providing details on how they are working better, but he will continue to work with other countries or have them pay us vast sums of money. Foreign countries do not pay tariffs. U. S. Companies pay tariffs exporting. The National Debt which is 21 trillion and counting. He says tariffs would help cut the National Debt. You have been a Business Reporter like i have been. Tell me how that works . Ill pass on the explanation. Im not sure. How his tax cuts and Spending Bill the republicans agreed to, those are making the National Debt bigger as we speak. There is some type of strategy the president is using right now. There is no wrong in telling the truth about what happens economically. It may work eventually. We have to wait and see. 11 children rescued from a compound that left Law Enforcement horrified. Investigators are still searching for a missing toddler who wasnt with them. Welcome to tide pods talk with gronk. Im gronk im big and awesome, but this guy is little, can it really clean . Heck yeah it can its concentrated detergent plus Stain Fighters plus Odor Flighers that fight for clean. Boom even this entire bottle cant beat tide pods. And now a word from future gronk ugh. Tide pods. If its clean, its got to be tide. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you
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30 and murders are down 25 . Investigators are ramping up the hunt for a missing 3yearold boy after a gruesome discovery in new mexico. 11 malnourished children were rescued from the compound with no food, water, shoes or even clothes to speak of. Five adults with them were arrested on the spot. Armed to the teeth. We have Kaylee Hartung with more on the scene which authorities are likening to a third world country. Reporter christine, phil, so many more questions as we learn more about the story and see the shocking photos. One of the men arrested is the father of the missing 3yearold. The other, a man by the name of lucas morton. These men were heavily armed when arrested by authorities. When i say heavily armed, i say ar15 rifles, rifles. They had loaded 30 round magazines and loaded pistols and ammunition. These two had amassed the arsenal in the Makeshift Travel Trailer and Buried Underground and covered in plastic. No water or electricity inside. Those are the conditions of two men and three women and 11 children. The two men in custody are being held without bond because of the abduction of his 3yearold son. The three women were brought in for questioning and have been released. It doesnt sound like they answered many questions. None of the five adults gave authorities information regarding the status of the missing 3yearold. The children meanwhile, the 11 children, are in the care of child protective services. It is one thing to see the photos. It is another to hear the firsthand account of authorities who responded to the scene. The Taos County Sheriff says it was the worst Living Conditions he has ever seen. Christine and phil. Police in berkeley, california arrested 25 people. Protesters clashed during and after an altright rally. Most of the arrests were for banned weapons. Police say Quote Extremists did smash 21 City Vehicles and slashed tires and set one city vehicle on fire. The yankees snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and getting swept away. Coy wire has the details in the Bleacher Report next. Alice loves the smell of gain so much, she wished it came in a Fabric Softener too. [throat clears] say hello to your fairy godmother, alice. Oh and look they got gain scent beads and dryer sheets too at t provides edgetoedge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your business. So this wont happen. Because youve made sure this sensor and this machine are integrated. Atta, boy. Yes, some people assign genders to machines. With edgetoedge intelligence, youll know your customers love this color, dont love this one. Never getting grape again. You can adjust in near real time. If someone tries to breach your firewall in london you start to panic. Dont. Youve got allies on the outside, Security Algorithms on the inside. If its jammed up here, its hot in here. You know both those things, you can do this. Your flowers wont wilt. At t provides edge to edge intelligence. It can do so much for your business, the list goes on and on. Thats the power of. When her patients Blood Pressure drops, she can share the information with. Introducing elvive protein recharge leavein conditioner. In just one use, elvives breakthrough heatprotecting formula leaves your hair with 97 less breakage and 15 times stronger. Elvive revives damaged hair. Because youre worth it. Fate in the next two weeks. Coy wire has more in the Bleacher Report. Good morning, christine and phil. Meyer is on paid leave while the school is investigating the handling of the Domestic Violence allegation of his Assistant Coach. Last night, former ohio House Speaker who was named chairman of the investigation said in part, quote, ohio state is committed to a thorough and complete investigation. We look forward to sharing the results of the investigation and any action the University May take. After denying any knowledge of the incident to reporters last month, urban meyer released a statement saying he did know about it and properly reported the alleged 2015 incident involving his former Assistant CoachZach Smith And smiths exwife courtney. Lets go to baseball. You missed the thriller with the red sox and yankees. New york up by three runs in the ninth inning. With two outs, Jackie Bradley jr. With the score. Then a hero emerges in Extra Innings. Andrew benintendi slapping the gamewinning single with two outs in the tenth. Breakout the brooms. Red sox complete the series sweep of the bitter rivals winning 54 at fenway park. Benintendi got a Gatorade Bath and a 9. 5 Game Division lead. If phil thinks that is bad, teams are hard for the mets this season. They now have the fifth worst record in baseball after losing in Extra Innings to the braves yesterday. Fans now have a place to vent. Listen, uma health in new york city is offering free
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and in the words of Rudy Giuliani for Robert Mueller to put up or shut up, this investigation is moving forward. Last week, cnn reported that the Special Counsel is making efforts to interview one key person in that Trump Tower Meeting. Emin agalarov. The one that helped facilitate the meeting. The russian pop singer whose father has deep ties to Vladimir Putin. His father is a russian oligarch. We do know that Robert Mueller and his team have been working alongside agalarovs legal team to secure an interview for more than a year. Christine and phil. Following the u. S. Withdrawal in play the Iranian Nuclear deal. Businesses have until midnight to end contracts with the country. The expected items are gold and an aluminum and steel and
graphite. Joining us this morning live from washington is josh rogin. Good morning, josh. Nice to see you. We will get to iran in a poemmo. I want to talk about the story here in the United States. The players in the june 2016 Trump Tower Meeting. An odd group of music publicists. Paul manafort on trial for unrelated issues. The group at the meeting. Now we know the president himself, admitting, the Trump Tower Meeting to get clinton dirt from the group, those russians. This turns all of the statements from the white house upside down. What is this significance in your mind . It is the end of a twoyear saga where the president , his staff, sean spicer, hope hik hi
and jay sekulow and the rest of them, we are learning falses accounts of the false accounts of the june 2016 meeting in trump tower. After the back and forth and the attacks on the media analyzd li we now have this on the record. This was an attempt to get information from the lawyer connected to the russian government on Hillary Clinton. Now does that change the amount of legal jeopardy that don un n junior was in yesterday . Not really. It exposes the elaborate coverup that has been going on for 26 months. Now we can have the president on the record clearly stating he lied, hope hicks lied, sean spicer lied. Now it comes down to that this
sort of cooperation with the russians which began well before the election, but is still ongoing now, is untoward and unusual and it is in many ways totally outside of the norm. If you want to take the next step and ask is this illegal . Does this amount to a criminal charge . That is really hard to determine. That is something the Special Counsel is doing his work on. The offer, the proffer of the dirt is still ongoing. I want to point viewers to the helsinki summit. Donald trump got up in front of the world with Vladimir Putin and offered the same dirt that Natalia Veselnitskaya offered two years ago. Bill brower spend millions on the Campaign Years ago. There is no proof of that. That is the dirt. This is not something that happened two years ago and we
are just learning about it now. This is an offer still ongoing. Donald trump called that offer an amazing deal. This is an ongoing scandal. All of that is clear as mud. Josh, i want to move to something else. The iran policy. Sanctions snapping back at 12 01 tuesday morning. I want to point to what Secretary Of State mike pompeo tweeted last night. We have seen the street protests. Mike pompeo tweeting we are deeply concerned of the reports of the Regime Violence against u. S. Citizens. We support the report to protest against corruption. We call on the regime to respect its peoples human rights. This tracks with the Secretary Of States speeches a couple of weeks ago. What is the actual policy on iran or what you hear from the president about meetings and things of that sort . You are hitting on the key point. There are two policies. What the president says and what his administration is doing. If you listen to what pompeo talked about in his speech a couple of weeks ago in california, he talked about the iranian people having the right to determine their own future. It sounds like regime change. It is not exactly regime change. It is not us with regime change. He is encouraging them to have regime change. We can talk about that. The president says the sanctions are meant to bring iran back to the table to get a better deal than the one he pulled out of a few months ago. Which is it . Are we sanctioning them to weaken the regime so people topple them or are we sanctioning them so the regime says we are serious. We better make a better deal with trump than the one with obama. It is contradictory. I dont think the latter is going to happen. Iran will not come back to the table. They are working with our allies
and russia and china. That scheme is not turning out to pan out the way we want. If mike pompeo wants to say we sanction them enough, maybe the iranian people throw off the oppressors and overthrow the government. That is not what we have here. This is a policy without an end or sanctions are just a means. What is more likely to happen is we will sanction the heck out of them. They will go on oppressing their people. They will stay in the deal and nobody will get what they want. Lets talk about tariffs. The president tweeted the tariffs are working. Tariffs are working. He says because of the tariffs, we will start paying down large amounts of the 21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated. 21. 3 trillion in debt. 1. 6 trillion added during the presiden presidency. It is only getting bigger. Is it going to spin tariffs as
paying down debt . The numbers as you pointed out, christine, tell a different story. The debt Apparend Deficit are g up. The key is tariffs are working. What does working mean . Have the chinese changed their attitude . No. They are retaliates. The chinese had very direct attack on the president this morning verbally. It is ann escalation. Maybe it will work in the future. The president said in ohio he made the greatest deal ever with the europeans. There is actually no deal. There is a lot of Weird Misdirection and false claims in the tweet. The Tariffs Strategy as krofr controversial as it is, could work. Claiming it is working is just simply misleading. It is a risky strategy that will throw doubt into a lot of the economic gains the president is planning to run on along with the party in november. American Companies Pay the tariffs. The tariffs go into the treasury department. We are cutting taxes. The cost on the economy, if it grows slower. Josh, great to see you. Cnn political analyst. Thanks. Venezuela alleging its president was targeted by drones. Six suspects detained and the government is blaming hit men from abroad. The Drone Explosion may have been caught on camera. Porary makeovers. Ere changh then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. Who has the upper hand now . Start winning today. Book now at lq. Com. Whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, inlaws were coming, a little bit of water, it really it rocked our world. I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. We called usaa. And they greeted me as they always do. Sergeant baker, how are you . They were on it. It was unbelievable. Having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa now thats a privilege. Were the bakers and were usaa members for life. Usaa. Get your insurance quote today. Cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle, meaning you probably dont clean as often as youd like. For a quick and convenient clean, try Swiffer Wetjet. Theres no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and Lock Technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. Its safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. And it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. For a convenient clean, try Swiffer Wetjet with a money back guarantee. Brand power. Helping you buy better. Send you on a journey to get to your bonus cash back. First they make you sign up for bonus cash back and its only on a few categories. And when those categories change, you gotta sign up again. When does it end . with the capital one quicksilver® card, you earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back
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broadcast, phil. Im sorry. He refuses to process that information. I know he is well rested and tanned. I feel good about your presence. I still loathe your red sox. Phil is sitting in on early start. We have that, which i said is the major focus and also the president now admitting thing in the russia investigation that maybe a year ago would have been astounding. How important is it that the president flat out admits his son don junior had the meeting in trump tower to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. It is illegal to receive something of value from another country. Did the president just admit his son broke the law . Where does this fit in the Convaluted Winding Road of the
russia investigation . We will give you a road map in a few minutes, friends. Thank you, john berman. Nice to see you. N new day coming up. The reward for missing Mollie Tibbetts is 250,000. She disappeared two weeks ago after going for a run. Her father is refusiing to give up home. Hang in there. Give up hope. Hang in there. We have a great Law Enforcement team. The community is behind you. Media is helping. The country is in love with you, pie. Well find you. Where does pie come from . We call her pie. I call her pie since she was a baby. On sunday, authorities found the body of a young woman they thought may be tibbetts, but it was not her. And venezuela authorities arresting six people after apparent assassination attempt
on president maduro. Unfolding live on tv on saturday. The attackers launching drones with explosives as maduro spoke at a military parade. The Drone Showing to be exploding in mid air. Maduro was quick to blame venezuelans in the United States. We get more from cnn rafael romo. Reporter christine and phil, those who targeted president maduro are terrorists and hit men. Venezuela Interior Minister said six suspects have been detained and said the government has fully identified all suspects in the alleged attacks inside venezuela and abroad. The incident happened saturday while president maduro was giving a speech on live
television during a military ceremony. It was broadcast live on the tv network in venezuela. The official version is drones armed with explosives detonated near the president and Maduro Reappearing On Television hours later said he was the target of the assassination attempt. Maduro revisited a Conspiracy Theory he uses often. Blaming a right wing plot. The president accused outgoing colombian president of being behind the attack. The colombian Foreign Minister called it absurd in a statement and rejected it. President maduro says those responsible for the financing of the attack live in florida. There was a statement from john bolton on saturday. There is no u. S. Government involvement. If venezuela has hard evidence to show potential violation of u. S. Criminal law, we will take a look at it. In the meantime, what we should focus on is the oppression of the maduro regime. Reporter they have long blamed the United States and colombia in what Maduro States is under cutting him. Thank you, rafael. Trade tensions shaking global stocks. On friday, china vowed 60 billion in tariffs if the u. S. Goes ahead with 200 billion in chinese goods. Wall street brushed off the trade fears. It is a stellar second quarter. 23. 5 profits for corporates. About 400 of the S P Companies have reported. Disney and viacom still have to report this week. Last week, apple is the first u. S. Company to hit 1 trillion in value. Who is next . Amazon and alphabet. In a tight race. Amazon is worth 889 billion. No surprise the contenders are all tech giants. That is the best performing sector this year. Tech companies have been largely immune to the trade threats. Hundreds of thousands of cartons of almond milk have been recalled becauses th they may contain milk. The cartons have a use by date of september 2nd. The almond milk is safe to drink unless you have a milk allergy. This is over a debate if the
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resolution and urging to continue sanctions against north korea. North korea responding saying the United States is not living up to the end of The Singapore Summit and they may have to walk away with the pledge to denuclearization if they dont get sanctions relief or formal end of the korean war peace treaty we told you about. North korea feels the person they can negotiate with best is donald trump directly with their leader. That is what my sources are telling me they want to happen. They say the exchange of letters a good sign. We have to watch and see if they do set a date to sit down and what might come out of it in terms of concrete steps to denuclearization. Thank you, will. And if that is the most important story of the day. Steven seagal, all classics, now
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