Spun around into the fence. Not much left from that indycar when it was over. We will tell you the latest. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is monday, august 20th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. The white house is trying to downplay signs of trouble after the New York Times reported that don mcgahn has cooperated with the russia investigation. Cnn has learned mcgahns attorney did not give President Trumps lawyers a full debrief after 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team. Cnns source saying the president s attorneys did not ask. The times said mcgahn cooperated so extensively because he planned the president would set him up for any illegal obstruction of justice. Now the statements could fill in key blanks in muellers report. For the latest, lets welcome in ryan nobles. Reporter dave and christine, the legal team of the president s spent a lot of time to convince the American People that the report is not damaging to the president. In fact it was his legal teams idea for don mcgahn to sit down with Robert Mueller and the special counsel. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, the president s chief spokesperson with his legal defense, had to say. We had a good sense of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. You dont know what he testified to to mr. Mueller . I think through john dowd, we had a good sense of it, john dowd said, ill use his words, mcgahn was a strong witness to the president. I dont need to know more about that. Reporter the mayor ignores a key point where it talks about the president s lawyers actually have no idea the depth of the conversations between don mcgahn with the special counsel team and what they covered. They agreed to mcgahn to sit for the conversations and waived Attorney Client privilege. They had no idea what don mcgahn would say when he sat down with the special counsels team. There are few people who have insight into the president s conduct especially with the russia probe for the past year and a half. The white house doesnt know how to handle this and what it could mean for the investigation going forward. Dave and christine. Ryan, thank you. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has a new fact style explanation for keeping the president away from Robert Mueller. Listen to what he told nbc about not allowing the special counsel to rush mr. Trump to testifying. When you tell me he should testify because he is going to tell the truth and not worry. That is funny. It is somebodys version of the truth. Not the truth. Truth is truth. Truth isnt truth. The president of the United States says i didnt truth isnt truth . Mr. Mayor . This is going to become a bad meme. Dont do truth isnt truth. He said i didnt talk about comey. He said he did. Tell me what the truth is. Later in the day, on sunday, the fired tredirector appeared respond. Truth exists and truth matters. People who lie are held accountable. Federal prosecutors are preparing charges against Michael Cohen and could announce them by the end of the month. Cohen investigated for possible bank and tax fraud and Campaign Finance violations related in part to a 130,000 hush payment to stormy daniels. According to the New York Times investigators are reviewing more than 20 million in loans to cohen and his familys taxi companies. Prosecutors have been mindful of the election cycle as to when they charge cohen. They are considering charges before september or after the midterms. No comment from toecohens team jury deliberations resume in the Paul Manafort bank and tax fraud trial. The president deciding to weigh in calling the trial very sad and describing his former Campaign Chairman as a very good person. Manaforts lawyer thanking the president for his support. Former cia director john brennan says he is willing to take the president to court if it helps prevent other officials from having their security clearance revoked. This is raising questions over he is using his office to retaliate against political opponents. On sunday, brennan stood by his comments accusing the helsinki summit behavior of treasonous behavior. Maybe this is my warning as a an intelligence official. I have seen the warning lights and he is bringing the country down on a global stage. Brennan is not alone. Others are slamming the president for targeting the count countrys enemies. The whole concept of the enemies list. Before that in the early 50s of the mccarthy era. The indication is he will provide these names to the press office to use this issue when it is a bad news day. I think that is a real misuse of not only security clearance, but misuse of the office of the presidency. Michael hayden, whose clearance is under review, he says the relationship with the president is dangerous closely to being broken. Irans top diplomat is speaking out since renewed sanctions against the country have happened. Mohammad javad zarif sitting down with an exclusive interview with nick paton walsh. He is saying the u. S. Is reliant on sanctions to get what it wants. I believe there is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions. Even during the obama administration, the United States put more emphasis on keeping the sanctions that they had not lifted rather than implementing obligations on the sanctions they lifted sdplch. A disease in the United States. Lets go live to tehran. Nick, tell us more. Reporter essentially this is about a breach of trust between zarif and what he felt the United States could continue to honor. Donald trump pulled out of the nuclear deal and slowly the u. S. Renewing sanctions against iran. The last lot last week with automobile and parts. We will see more happening in november. The real point being, i believe, zarif hopes down the line while negotiations are a long shot, that perhaps the european allies of donald trump who criticized him leaving the deal m mma may convince him to come back in. The sanctions will not work going forward. Hear is what he had to say. The United States had learned that as far as iran is concerned, sanction do produce economic hardship, but do not produce the political joutcomes they intend to produce. I thought that the americans had learned that lesson. Unfortunately i was wrong. Reporter now, interestingly he made a reference to the 1950s. He was talking on the 65th anniversary of the u. S. Backed coup that kicked out the government here. Currently they want to see, quote, regime change. They established in the state department and Iran Action Group to change irans behavior. He thinks there is more far reaching goal ahead. The real question is can talks pick up again . He doesnt think that is possible unless the Iran Nuclear Deal is honored. There could be more damage ahead with sanctions in early november. Back to you. Nick paton walsh, thank you. White house rejecting turkeys offer to release andew brunson. The turkey government wants to forgive the billions of fines. Trump wants the North Carolina pastor freed before other matters. This could lead to more u. S. Sanctions. Brunsons incarceration has strained relations with the two countries and sparking a sharp value in currency. Timeline to end the trade war. A delegation leads to washington this week for trade talks. The wall street journal says china and the u. S. Are working on a road map to end the trade dispute. The deadline is november. That is the next time President Trump and xi jinping will meet. For months, they have threatened each other with billions of tariffs. This week, the u. S. Will begin collecting tariffs on another 16 billion on u. S. Goods. Chemicals and motorcycles and small electronics. Beijing will strike back just like last month. Previous rounds of trade talks have failed to find a breakthrough. Investors like that they are still trying. Coming up, mixed emotions for worshippers at the First Services after a stunning and damaging report of sex abuse in the catholic church. The latest from pittsburgh is next. I found my tresiba® reason. Now im doing more to lower my a1c. I take tresiba® once a day. Tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. woman wed been counting down to his retirement. It was our tresiba® reason. He needs insulin to control his high blood sugar and, at his age, hes at greater risk for low blood sugar. Tresiba® releases slow and steady and works all day and night like the bodys insulin. vo tresiba® is a longacting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. 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The archdiocese of philadelphia has defrocked two priests. One for sex abuse and one for drug crimes. They say they are unsuitable for ministry. This is not connected to the grand jury report detailing child abuse by hundreds of pennsylvania priests over decades. Pope francis did not address the issue during weekly prayer. More now from Polo Sandoval in pittsburgh. Reporter dave and christine, onethird of the clergy were from this diseasfficult dioc. Some are happy how the disease diocese is handling the issue. Some say they have to work hard to regain the trust. The head of the diocese has submitted an open letter to t faithful in pennsylvania and starting with promising changes with the victims and survivors. Saying they have to be heard and heal. We listened to them carefully. We removed priests from ministry. We have, in fact, turned it over to the district attorneys of the appropriate counties. Fourthly, we engaged the independent review board to assess and take a look at the allegations whether or not a person would be student able for ministry. Suitable for ministry again. Reporter some say this is not enough. They believe there was a coverup that spanned decades. They want a full admission from the catholic church. Polo, thank you. More details emerging today when prosecutors in colorado formally charge chris watts with the deaths of his pregnant wife and two little girls. Kaylee hartung has more from frederick, colorado. Reporter dave and christine, we expect to learn why Police Believe chris watts murdered his wife and two children. He is expected to be charged later today and with that, we expect to learn more details that have not previously been released. It was a week ago this began to unfold. Last monday that shanann and bella and celeste were reported missing. We learned from shananns facebook and instagram and private moments like when she told her husband she was pregnant with their third child. As the case for all of us, soeg social media did not paint the picture. The couple filed for bankruptcy in 2015. By all accounts, they were working their way out of debt. This is the information that investigators with will comb through as they look to answer our biggest question. Why. Dave and christine. Stunning story. Thank you. Floridas tourism board launching a program to help with the red tide. This has been detected in eight counties and killed thousands of marine creatures and hurt tourism. The Weather Service warns the tide can cause respiratory irritation and skin rash and burning eyes. Indycar driver Robert Wikens is hospitalized after a frightening crash at poconos race way. Watch the eighth lap after the restart. Wickens and Ryan Hunter Ray touched wheels and his car went into the fence and spun in the air. It took several minutes to get him out of the vehicle. He is being treated to injuries from right arm and spine and likely go through surgery. These sports are dangerous, but these cars have become so much safer. The fact he is okay says a lot how that cockpit keeps the guys safe. Wish him well. Reunknoions nearly 70 years apart. More from seoul next. Customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the Amazing Services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4 week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com save and never go to the post office again im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. After nearly seven decades apart, a group of south koreans crossed the Demilitarized Zone to meet their family members. We have Paula Hancocks live in seoul with reunifications happening. Good morning, paula. Reporter good morning, dave. We are seeing some very emotional images coming from north korea as these families are meeting their family members for the first time in decades. 89 families were picked from 57,000 who wanted to be part of this showing this is just a drop in the ocean. A fraction of those who want to be reunited with family members. You can see the emotional images as families are getting together once again. Now most of them in their 80s or 90s. It is a sense it is a race against time to bring as many p Families Together as possible. Many Families Together as possible. Many were torn apart in the 50s with the korean war. Many did not know if their loved ones were still alive. This is a wonderful moment. It is bittersweet. It is only for three days. It is highly choreographed with certain hours of the day they are allowed to meet. 3 00 p. M. To 5 00 p. M. That has now finished. They separate and have a meal from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. They get on the bus and come back down to south korea knowing they are unlikely to see their loved ones again. Dave. Brief, but emotional. Paula live for us this morning. Thank you. 26 minutes past the hour on monday morning. Don mcgahn left the president s legal team in the dark after his meetings with the special counsel. Now the defense team is depl deploying another alternative fact. It is somebodys version of the truth. Not the truth. He did not have a conversation about truth is truth. It isnt truth. Truth isnt truth. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast 30 hours of interviews with the special counsel, but white house lawyer don mcgahn did not fully brief the president s defense team. There is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions. A cnn exclusive. Irans foreign minister says the u. S. Relies too much on sanctions without anything to show for it. We are live in tehran. A frightening crash at poconos race way. Sends a driver to the hospital. Robert wickens spins into the fence several times. Not much left from that indycar when it was over. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Truth isnt truth. We will have that next. But we start with this today. The white house is trying to downplay signs of trouble after the New York Times reported that don mcgahn has cooperated with the russia investigation. Cnn has learned mcgahns attorney did not give President Trumps lawyers a full debrief after 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team. Cnns source saying the president s attorneys did not ask. The president says this proves the white house is being transparent. The times said mcgahn cooperated so extensively because he planned the president would set him up for any illegal obstruction of justice. Now the statements could fill in key blanks in muellers report. For the latest, lets welcome in ryan nobles. Reporter dave and christine, the legal team of the president s spent a lot of time to convince the American People that the report is not damaging to the president. In fact it was his legal teams idea for don mcgahn to sit down with Robert Mueller and the special counsel. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, the president s chief spokesperson with his legal defense, had to say. This about don mcgahns cooperation with the special counsel. We had a good sense of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. You dont know what he testified to to mr. Mueller . I think through john dowd, we had a good sense of it, john dowd said, ill use his words, mcgahn was a strong witness to the president. I dont need to know more about that. Reporter the problem is the mayor ignores a key point where it talks about the president s lawyers actually have no idea the depth of the conversations between don mcgahn with the special counsel team and what they covered. They agreed to mcgahn to sit for the conversations and waived Attorney Client privilege. They had no idea what don mcgahn would say when he sat down with the special counsels team. There are few people who have insight into the president s conduct especially with the russia probe for the past year and a half. The big problem today is the white house doesnt know how to handle these interactions and what it could mean for the investigation going forward. Dave and christine. Ryan, thank you. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has a new fact style explanation for keeping the president away from Robert Mueller. Listen to what he told nbc about not allowing the special counsel to rush mr. Trump to testifying. When you tell me he should testify because he is going to tell the truth and not worry. That is so silly. That is somebodys version of the truth. Not the truth. Truth is truth. Truth isnt truth. The president of the United States says i didnt truth isnt truth . Mr. Mayor . This is going to become a bad meme. Dont do truth isnt truth. Donald trump says i didnt talk about flynn to comey. He said he did. Tell me what the truth is. Later in the day, on sunday, the fired director appeared to respond. Truth exists and truth matters. People who lie are held accountable. Federal prosecutors are preparing charges against President Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen and could announce them by the end of the month. Cohen investigated for possible bank and tax fraud and Campaign Finance violations related in part to a 130,000 hush payment to stormy daniels. According to the New York Times investigators are reviewing more than 20 million in loans to cohen and his familys taxi companies. Prosecutors have been mindful of the election cycle as to when they charge cohen. They are considering charges before september or after the midterms. No comment from cohens team. Jury deliberations resume in the Paul Manafort bank and tax fraud trial. On friday, jurors ended a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The president deciding to weigh in calling the trial very sad and describing his former Campaign Chairman as a very good person. Manaforts lawyer thanking the president for his support. His client faces another trial in washington next month. A speech writer has been terminated by the white house. We reached out about darren beattie. The white house asked us to hold off on this story. Beattie has confirmed he spoke at the 2016 conference, but says his speech was not objectionable. Irans top diplomat is speaking out begisince the sancs were renewed last week. Mohammad javad zarif sits down with nick paton walsh. He is saying the u. S. Is reliant on sanctions to get what it wants. I believe there is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions. Even during the obama administration, the United States put more emphasis on keeping the sanctions that they had not lifted rather than implementing obligations on the sanctions they lifted. Lets go live to tehran and nick paton walsh. Nick, interesting words from zarif. Reporter certainly. This is the force of moderation of dealing with the west rather than left conservative elements get confrontation. They got confrontation with donald trump. Tearing up the nuclear deal. They are soul searching of what could be next. Sanctions are coming and they realize that the addiction to sanctions means they were mistaken in looking for a deal. What could come ahead . We had suggestions of immediate talks here and there. Here is what mr. Zarif had to say about the possibility of talking to the current white house. Could you ever get a deal with donald trump . Well, it depends on President Trump. Whether he wants to make us believe that he is a reliable partner. Now, if we spent time with him and he signs another agreement, how long will it last . Until the end of his administration . Until he departs from the place where he put his signature on the agreement . Reporter essentially that is the question. Will they buy their time with the Trump Administration . At the same time, the Current State Department in the u. S. Moving forward creating the Iran Action Group to focus european and allies against iran. That, mr. Zarif, reminded him of the 50s administrations with the coup here. They are holding out hope that they can convince european allys to stay in the deal allies that is the best thing to stay in the deal. Back to you. Thank you, nick. The white house is rejecting turkeys offer to release american pastor andrew brunson. According to the wall street journal the turkey government wants the United States to forgive fines from a turkey bank in return for releasing brunson. This impasse could lead to additional sanctions. Brunsons incarceration has strained relations with the countries and dropped the value in the turkey currency. Stop me if you heard this before. A lot of mean and angry stuff on twitter. Now the ceo on twitter trying to fix it. What is broken about twitter today . What is broken about twitter . What jack dorsey has to say about his platform next. Are you a christian author with a book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today all right. Twitter faces criticism for allowing spam, abuse and misinformation and Conspiracy Theory to thrive. A fact twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey acknowledges. He tells Brian Stelter what is broken about twitter and how he plans to fix it. Theres a lot of emphasis today on politics twitter. Politics twitter is divisive and contentious. You see a lot of outrage. If you go to other twitters like nbc twitter or kpop twitter, you see the opposite. It is important to see the dark areas of society to acknowledge and address them. I think the only way to address is through conversation. It is hard especially when it feels toxic and you want to walk away. We give people one tool right now which is to follow an account. You want people to follow stories or subjects or hash tags . We have been focusing the Service Today more toward topics and interests. It sounds like you are ready and willing to rebuild the house. Renovate. We are ready to question everything. Dorsey added he needs to overhaul the fundamentals of twitter, but did not commit to a ti timetable. A somber sunday for catholics in pennsylvania. A report detailing hundreds of priests abuse for decades. We have more from Polo Sandoval in pittsburgh. Reporter christine and dave, onethird of the clergy mentioned from the report were from this diocese. We found a mixed reaction. Some were satisfied with the way the diocese is handling and trying to prevent it from happening again. At the same time, skeptics who say the church has to work hard to regain trust. For his part, the head of the diocese here has submitted an open letter to the faithful in pennsylvania here and certainly promising changes starting with the victims. Survivors. Saying they have to be heard and st they have to heal. First of all, we listened to them carefully and we removed priests from ministry. We have turned over issues to the appropriate counties. We have a review board to assess the allegations to see if the person is suitable for ministry again. Reporter some catholics say the apology is not enough. They believe this was a coverup that spanned decades and they want a full admission from the catholic church. Polo, thank you. Floridas tourism board launching two programs to help counties affected by red tide. The algae has been detected in eight counties and killed huge numbers of marine creatures and created a smell along the west coast. The Weather Service warns the red tide can cause respiratory irritation and burned eyes. Another weekend filled with gun violence in chicago. Police say 59 were shot. 5 fatally since friday afternoon. Violent crime in the city had been falling for more than a year until this summer. The police chief called for more Community Cooperation to help police stem the violent crimes. Aretha franklins funeral set for a week from friday on august 31st at Greater Grace Temple in detroit. Public viewing held tuesday and wednesday august 28th and 29th at the museum of africanamerican history. Her life will be honored by clive davis. He has been planning a concert in her honor for months before her death. It is set for november 14th at Madison Square garden. Franklin died of pancreatic canc cancer at 76. Robert wickens in the hospital after the terrifying crash at poconos race way. Wow. Shortly after the restart, wick be wickens and Ryan Hunter Ray touched wheels. It took 12 minutes to extricate him from the car. Officials say he is treated for injuries to his lower extremities and arm and spine. He will likely undergo surgery. Our thoughts are with him. 49 minutes past the hour. Storms and heavy rain in the midwest today with the brief taste of fall later in the week. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us from the weather center. Good morning, dave and christine. We have a lot of wet weather across the midwest. Certainly Severe Weather as well across the region. We have a front pushing through and bringing in some heavy rainfall across portions of the great lakes and this morning we will see strong storms in a risk for Severe Weather for 5 Million People in Popular Bluff and paducah and clarksdale, mississippi. Damaging winds and large hail the threat around the region. Notice as we go into later this morning, st. Louis gets in on the storms. 3 00 p. M. , expect the storms to align in chicago. I would not be surprised if we get a few delays from this this afternoon into the chicago airports. The big story becomes the cooler air. Look what happens for wednesday and thursday. Setting up shop across the region. The northeast and midwest with the temperatures dropping off in the 70s. Even in new york city on tuesday and returning back on thursday. Highs in the mid70s across the northeast. Guys. All right. Pedram, thank you. It was a crazy rich weekend for crazy rich asians. The movie took the top spot at the box office. 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Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. After nearly seven decades apart, a group of south koreans have crossed to the north to reunite with family members they have not seen since the korean war in the early 50s. We have Paula Hancocks in seoul with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dave. We are seeing emotional images from north korea as those family members, 89 families, from south korea are now meeting with loved ones that they have not seen in decades. Torn apart by the korean war in the 1950s. Many families did not know if their loved ones were still alive until they were picked to be part of the reunions. They are reunions which are rare when south korea and north korea have good relations. It is a group of families which are picked. 70,000 people wanted to be picked for this. 89 were part of it. A majority of the people are in the their80 their 80s and 90s. 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Early start continues right now. 30 hours of interviews with the special counsel, but white house lawyer don mcgahn did not fully brief the president s defense team. There is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions. A disease in the United States. A cnn exclusive. Irans foreign minister says the u. S. Relies too much on sanctions without anything to show for it. We are live in tehran. A frightening crash at poconos race way. Sends a driver to the hospital. Robert wickens spins into the fence several times. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Remarkable video. Im dave briggs. Monday, august 20th. We will get to giulianis latest gem. Truth isnt truth in a moment. We start with the white house. Trying to downplay signs of trouble after the New York Times reported that don mcgahn has cooperated with the russia investigation. Cnn has learned mcgahns attorney did not give President Trumps lawyers a full debrief after 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team. Cnns source saying the president s attorneys did not ask. The president says this proves the white house is being transparent. The times said mcgahn cooperated so extensively because he planned the president would set him up for any illegal obstruction of justice. For the latest, lets welcome in ryan nobles