Make it through with one of these bombs. Very mysterious to me why general flynn is out there saying he wants immunity. If youre not guilty of a crime what do you need immunity for. When youre given immunity that means you committed a crime. It wasnt that donald trump won the election it was that the Democratic Party lost the election. Good morning, everyone. So glad to have you with us. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. U. S. Intelligence agencies say terrorists have found ways to hide explosives in electronics that can evade commonly used airport screenings. They even have their own equipment to test whether they can bypass security. National security analyst and i should say worked for the Homeland Security under president obama and we have cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official. So glad to have boston you here. Phil i want to start with you and talk about the reality of this risk because a lot of people sitting at home this morning im sure looking at this, heading in to the Summer Travel season and wondering how serious is the athlete truly . How can they put this theory possibly into practice . I would rate the threat pretty seriously. You look how we evolved in the past 15 years we started with taking shoes off. You cant bring liquids on an aircraft. That was the most sophisticated plot i saw. In 2005 terrorists affiliated with al qaeda tried to bring Energy Drinks on aircraft. Isis and al qaeda taking another step forward. Theres a silver lining. Airport security and Perimeter Security to our airports has pushed isis and al qaeda to more and more sophisticated efforts to get stuff on aircraft because defensive measures in the United States and elsewhere have succeed. Theres one wild card that we got to watch as we go in the Summer Season and thats theres very few terrorists that have the capability to alter a laptop to this kind of tloefl get through Airport Security. U. S. Efforts along with allies to eliminate those bomb makers i think would go a long way to eliminate threat. Its not a man off the street activist who can build a bomb. How lethal is the bomb . Were talking about a bomb in a battery thats hidden in the battery section and they can turn these computers on for a short period of time to get them through security. With that said how effective might a bomb be . Could it bring down a plane . It could depending on where you put it in the aircraft. For example, theres the debate or discussion over the past day or two about why you dont prohibit bombs going into the belly of the aircraft, going into checked baggage. Two issues why you wouldnt. Number one, they are harder to trigger you dont have somebody with a laptop. Number two theres a placements issue, a terrorist cant control the placement of laptop when it goes into the belly of an aircraft. Think of yourself walking in to an airplane and you got a seat next to the window. Youll place that laptop next to the skin of the aircraft to maximize the prospect that explosive blows a hole in the aircraft. If you get two or three passengers as we saw with 9 11 plots with similar laptops at the same time placing them against the skin of the aircraft you can see why we have a problem. We one that they got this equipment that is the same kind of equipment they use in airports. Does that tell you that there was an insider at the airport and thats how they were able to obtain the equipment . Weve seen insiders recruited by isis and al qaeda in the past. The thing i worry about more when i did this in the business at the cia and fbi was insider selfrecruiting, somebody in an airport after they go through Airport Security and get a job, nominate themselves volunteering to join al qaeda and isis and then saying we can get you behind Airport Security or in this case possibly give you this kind of equipment. What it tells me, those when they acquire this is not only their commitment to take down an aircraft but the fact that the lock is twik these bomb makers i mentioned earlier. Remember the under wear bomber used highly sophisticated invisible piece of clothing under his pants, almost take down an aircraft. That was eight years ago. The bomb maker involved in building that device is still around. Hes this amount of time not only to try to build a laptop bomb but as youre saying to acquire equipment to see if that thing can get around Airport Security. That bomb maker has to go. Otherwise hell succeed. We appreciate your expertise here. Thank you. About six minutes after the hour now. Finances of the president s closest aides including his daughter have just been revealed in the white house disclosure documents. Were learning ivanka trump and her husband Jared Kushner combined, their worth could exceed 700 million. The couple collected about 195 million anyone come according to a new financial snapshot of 180 of the men and women serving in the donald trump white house. Before administration counsel advised them to resign from various posts, divest Certain Holdings or recuse themselves from certain decisions. Dan, good morning. So lets start with ivanka trump and Jared Kushner. They are not the only wealthy aides but were learning a lot about their holdings as well as the other aides here at the white house and a lot of millionaires around the president. Yeah. The form somewhat confirmed what we already thought and knew about this white house is that there are a lot of wealthy people around donald trump. Youll remember he campaigned against people and Goldman Sachs and investment banks. Worth noting a lot of those people have come to the white house, come to his white house. His top economic adviser made 75 million last near. The Top National SecurityCouncil Adviser made over 4 million last year. 3 million of which was in a cash bonus. By far the most interest cigarette what Jared Kushner and by marriage ivanka trump, what they are worth and what they made. The 700 million, is a huge figure. If you dig down into those numbers you see where that money came from and what must have been a very complicated process to divest himself from these holdings. The biggest concern with Trump Administration has between ability for aides and the president himself to benefit their businesses and then their bottom line through the presidency. Youve seen donald trump for the last eight weekends go to properties with his name interest. Go to golf courses, go to his hotels and now, obviously, hes the president , he can go where he wants, but by going to those properties hes, you know, giving them publicity that many places would die for. And that in turn benefits his bottom line. The questions about kushner and now ivanka trump who has become an informal adviser or official adviser, a Government Employee is will she be able to do that as well and how are her holdings tied to her husband. Well dig deep near to this. Thank you for setting everything on table. Ill bring in my panel to discuss this latest white house disclosure report as well as the drama unfolding on capitol hill. Where does the investigation of russia and Trump Association go from here . President trump facing a number of controversies. We talked to former president ial adviser David Axelrod how the administration will move ahead with an ambitious agenda. 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How is that anything but a conflict of interest working in the white house and still benefiting from that company and potentially, potentially foreign dig an any dignitaries glowi. At the end of the day when you look at who the president has attracted, hes attracting people who are very successful in the private sector and bringing them into white house to work. I think its something we should celebrate and i think something to a lot of americans including myself is inspirational to see these people who are very successful in the private sector coming together help. As i want relates to ivanka trump and her husband Jared Kushner they are very successful people and quite financially well off. She does not have any type of wrongdoing here because you have to look at the white House Counsel going in and determining that she needed to come in at a formal capacity at the white house. Shes doing that. I believe everything that needs done make sure that shes above board as it reflects her finances and as it reflects her work at the white house is going to be done with the help of the white House Counsel and her own personal attorneys. There are these watchdog groups who say that because she still has the stake, and there were some revelations that happened with the president and trump hotel so that he would not continue to collect monies from that hotel while in office, but ivanka trump will. Sure. Is there conflict of interest . Theres no conflict of interest. That was for eugene. Sorry. Go ahead, u gene. Absolutely. I think there are people weve seen ethic czars that previously worked in the White House Administration say this is not only nepotism that the kushners were hired but they were hired wane that presents conflict of interest and theres concerns whether or not they will actually be able to remain in a way that suggests that they were above reproach and so integrity. One can argue from the Ethics Community that one of the reasons that the curb nears were so profitable last year is because they had such a highprofile on the campaign, drawing more attention to their businesses. President Trump Administration and ivanka specifically have said they have gone above the call in duty to elevate themselves from their business interests in a way that wouldnt harm or disadvantage the american people. Lets turn to the russia investigation, the ranking democrat on house intelligence adam schiff was at the white house, viewed some documents and released a statement afterwards saying this and ill just read a portion it. It was represented to me that these are precisely the same materials that were provided to the chairman over a week ago. While i can not discuss the content of the documents if the white house had any concern or these materials they should have been shared with the full committee in the first place as part of our ordinary oversight responsibilities. Lets take that first sentence first. Chairman nunes has not disclosed what hes seen. So theres no way to know if they are looking at the same thing. No. We dont know what chairman nunes saw. We dont know who gave it to him. We dont know whats in it. We take him at his word that it proves that the president and his allies communication may have been intercepted kind of accidentally. And nunes added that this doesnt deal with russia. Were still trying to like i compare this to like looking at a painting at an art gallery but theres a mirror over it and you cant make out what faint cigarette or what the colors. Its all just so confusing as to why we are still talking about this wiretapping and what this means for the president s allegations that president Obama Wiretapped him during the campaign. We just dont know at this point. Except for the fact that there is this head scratching interaction between the Top Republican investigating, potentially the Trump Campaign on this and the white house itself. Let me go to you with that second statement from schiff statement. The if there was concern here the white house should have gone through regular order. Why the initial, if they are the same documents, the initial briefing for nunes and then this belated briefing for the ranking democrat . If these are the same documents and they have some concern here. Yeah. Look, theres a lot of things we dont know. We dont know if they are the same documents, we dont know exactly what chairman nunes originally had seen. What we have to be careful in our analysis of whats going on is to not assume the negative, not to assume theres a cover up, not to assume something nefarious going on. What we should a0 zoom the ferks our federal government is working to get to the bottom of these issues, that the white house is cooperating and people on the hill, the chairman nunes especially are doing what they are supposed to do to get to the bottom of these issues. I think thats what we should focus our attention on is an investigation will happen. Hes seen information that he did not like or felt that somehow might have cooperated with what the president tweeted but about general surveillance by the Obama Administration to the Trump Campaign or the trump transition. The question, though, which has been for quite a while now is the source of that information, if the chairman of the committee went to twhous or the white house grounds to get that, the details of these documents, and then went to the press and went back to the white house the next day why couldnt these employees go just to the oval office. I want to play for you what we heard from sean spicer this was in response to a question if what happened and exchange of information was appropriate. Heres what he said. To answer your question yes its appropriate. For a member of congress to contact someone who has contacted him according to some of these reports. I dont know the answer to that but if youre asking me it is appropriate for a member of congress to come over here. As chairman nunes said he wasnt hiding or roaming. He was asked to come over by an individual. He came over which happens daily. Asked to go somewhere. He went there. Hes cleared. Nothing that is inappropriate, exactly the opposite. What he did, what he saw and who he met with was 100 proper. If its 100 proper whats the white houses justification for not answering the basic who, what, when, where. I get they are not answering the what or maybe the how but some of the basic questions of how this information was disseminated. It was interesting to see the press secretary say it was appropriate because he must know everything regarding what transpired. Its hard to determine whether or not it was actually appropriate because details are still coming out. To paris point were still trying to figure out information that we have to be slow to make assumptions about what happened exactly and so im not quite sure how to determine whether or not the actions were appropriate or not. I think what the white house intent is to remain, be consistent and communicate that they have operate in a an honorable way and they believe was above reproach and showed integrity and didnt compromise the investigation. The criticism has been that the white house actually wants to end the investigation and whether or not it will actually happen and carry out is what everyone is paying attention. I want you to see this video. This was yesterday. The president , the Vice President and two members of his cabinet there in the oval office. He was making some remarks about these two executive orders regarding trade he was going to make and then this happened. Thank you everybody. Youre going to see some very, very strong results very, very quickly. Thank you very much. Were you trying to tell the Justice Department to grant immunity to michael flynn. Were you trying to do that, mr. President . Was that your intention, mr. President , sir. Mr. President , was that your intention, mr. President . Was that your intention, sir . Thanks guys. Amber, you see the president leaving the oval Office Without signing executive orders. The Vice President taps him on the back and says you have to sign them. Well do it in another room. The questions about russia are chasing this president into another room out of the oval office there. Literally. Listen, if you step back and look at everything russia, since hes been inaugurated in january every Major Development has been news of the Trump Administration doesnt want. He didnt Want Congress to even investigate russia meddling in the u. S. Election. He didnt think at first russia did it. Now you hear that advisors of his inner circle like Jared Kushner are being asked to go capitol hill to testify. You hear the fbi is investigating collusion, potential collusion between russia and Trump Associates during the campaign. You hear his former National Security adviser wants immunity to talk to congress being immunity for what, we dont know. The bottom line is this russia story is something that Trump Administration cannot get out from under, cannot escape and i think its because all this news has been the opposite of what they want, which is for this just to go away. Well be talking how the white house can get out from under this russia story a little later in the show. Thank you all. Thank you. Next former obama president ial adviser David Axelrod giving his advice for president trump. How he says the administration has to operate in the middle of so many swirling controversies. Whats needed is discipline and focus. The investigation is a separate issue. Charges filed after a massive fire. Look at this. Downed part of an atlanta interstate and investigators are getting their first clues on what like lly caused this. Yeah. Introducing essential portfolios the automated investing solution. 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It is so good to have your company on this saturday morning. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Clouds still over Trump Administration travlgs man snarled, the failed hearth bill and above all the alleged russia connection. So how can the president get back on message . I asked a man who knows the west wing well, cnn political commentator David Axelrod. When you have a president who has never served a day in government and he surrounds himself with a staff of people who never served a day in government, and you have a president who really doesnt have a really well defined world view on a wide array of issues, you have a prescription for the problems that weve seen. Theres a lot of incoherence. Theres a lot of, frankly, just rookie mistakes and so whats needed is discipline and focus. The investigation is a separate issue and how theyve handled it is, has created greater problems for them. But on the daytoday functions of government, there are protocols you need to follow and there are splindisciplines that important. They need to focus. It flow from the guy at top. If hes undisciplined, if he sends a story cascading in a different direction hard to get focus. Youre a Senior Adviser to president obama. How would you advise this president or does this president want that type of advice . Thats not clear. Obviously, as i said, everything flow from the top. If he doesnt want it, hes not going to get it. Hes pulled his daughter ivanka in. He tends to rely on his family forced a vice more than anyone else. He doesnt have a cadre of trusted aides. President obama brought in a group of people, many of whom he had a relationship with who also had deep roots in government at some level or another and that was very helpful. He doesnt have that. But he needs to find some people who sort of know how the system works. Now understand he was elected to challenge the system. I mean thats the core of his message. But still youre here now, youre not a candidate, youre president of the United States. You have to get things done. You need a few people around you who know how to get things done. Lets talk about the axe files. Your first guest tonight on cnn senator john mccain, you were the chief strategist for the Obama Campaign against senator mccain. Lets listen to a bit of that conversation and then talk on the other side. Its now clear everyone seems to agree russians did interfere in our election campaign. If you destroy democracy, the fundamental of democracy there are certain fundamentals, rule of law, respect, et cetera, but one of them is freedom to elect legitimately leadership. Thats fundamental principle and if you destroy that then youve really destroyed democracy. If someone, if an american citizen were complicit with the russians in trying to interfere in our elections, would that in your moiind tantamount to treas . You gaffe to gauge the circumstance. Its one thing on have a conversation, another thing to plot. Its something that that individual would have to be held accountable. Senator mccain specifically on the topic of u. S. Russia relations has been very critical of this administration. What have you learned about how he characterizes or sees his role during the trump years . Well, it was really interesting, victor, because its clear that he has deep, deep reservations about donald trump. You remember donald trump was quite insulting to senator mccain during the campaign, questioning his bona fide as a war hero even though he served six years as prisoner of war. But hes also careful not to be sort of too overt in that criticism except in some areas and the russian area is one of them. He really took deep, deep umbrage at the president s comments to bill oreilly creating some sort of relationship between how america by the way heaviest and how Vladimir Putin behaves. And interestingly when i asked him about the comparisons that some Trump Supporters make between donald trump and senator mccains political hero and friend Ronald Reagan, he was very quick to say i dont see that at all. Would you never see, essentially said you would never see Ronald Reagan comparing our country to Vladimir Putins russia. David, ale rod, than axelrs so much. The axe files is coming to cnn. Be sure to camp its television premier, special conversation with senator john mccain. Cnn special tonight at 9 00 eastern. Still to come we have some new images we want to share with you that were released showing that missing tennessee student and her teacher. Well give the latest on the manhunt. The massive fire that destroyed part of an interstate in atlanta and now fire crews think they know how it started and who potentially is responsible. The latest in that investigation. Mortgage rates dropped slightly this week. Heres your look. You could pus. 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Anthony thomas, elizabeths dad is reacting to the release of this footage saying this Oklahoma City confirmed sighting in his own words first piece evidence that tad, ted rather and elizabeth did leave together and that they are together. Keep in mind this footage was shot about two and a half weeks ago. Investigators hope the release of it breets new life into the investigation. New surveillance images shows former teacher tad cummings and Elizabeth Thomas, the two were caught on camera at a walmart in Oklahoma City earlier this month showing cummings with darker hair and thomas possibly with red hair according to police. This is the latest evidence since cummings and thomas disappeared last month. This is not a fairy tale. This is a case of kidnapping. Reporter 50yearold tad cummings is suspected of abducting Elizabeth Thomas. Shes high school freshman. Hes a former teacher. This and was not a romance. This was manipulation. Solely to benefit tad cummings. Reporter thomas has been missing since march 15th. At this point we have had no credible sightings of either individual. Reporter under Tennessee Law children over 12 years old can decide whether to leave their families unless their removal or confinement is accomplished by force, threat or fraud. District attorney brent cooper is fighting to change that law. He hopes state lawmakers consider elizabeths case when they hold their next meeting next year. This was without the consent of the parents or guardians. That should be a crime. Reporter Tennessee Bureau of investigation translated elizabeths amber alert to spanish spreading the word so they can fine her faster. Family and friends continue searching for elizabeth hoping she returns home soon. Your dog misses you. It doesnt want anyone to play with it. Attorneys are laying out the legal ground work to prosecute cummings. Theyve already issued two arrest warrants. One for sexual contact with a minor and other one for aggravated kidnapping. Speak to investigators they say its not a matter if they the hack him down, its a matter of when. So they disappeared on the 13th. Within two days they end up at this walmart some ten hours away. What are the chances because weve heard this thrown out there that they went to mexico. If so how does that complicate the case. Thats a great question. They could be anywhere. Theres reason why investigators have interest in looking south of the border. They translated that amber alert issued for elizabeth translated it into spanish and there was also a sighting that wasnt confirmed but in south texas, Corpus Christi about a two hour drive from the border. Obviously this is a concern. They are keeping in touch with or staying in touch with mexican authorities if that was a case, closely revealing bridge video at some of the border crossings. Thank you so much. 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Now, the military is pointing to a new isis tactic that could be partly responsible for this uptick in civilian casualty allegations. Now, isis is accused of hiding civilians in buildings not using them as human shields but in fact smuggling them in secretly and tempting to bait the coalition into striking the buildings and then using the public outcry as a kind of propaganda tool to deter further strikes. Now, its a very contested battle space there in mosul in the older part of the city. Very tightly congested. Theres very narrow streets and the battles raging quite fiercely. The coalition in one week alone were told dropped about 700 munitions from aircraft and launched about 400 artillery strikes. So its a very intense battle space. So this is something that the militarys going to continue to work on, refining its tactics in order to prevent this while simultaneously looking into these allegations to determine whether or not and how much the coalition played a role in those civilian deaths. Victor. Well continue to follow it. Ryan browne for us, ryan, thanks so much. Coming up at the top of the hour, president trumps agenda overshadowed by russia. Can the Administration Shake this cloud of controversy still swirling around the white house . And we had one of the greatest upsets in sports history last night. Andy scholes is here with more now. Used to be three things certain in life, death, taxes and uconns Women Basketball team is going to win it all. You can cross that last one off of the list. Were going to show you the shocking upset up next. Got it yeah, at first i thought it was just the stress of moving. [ sighs ] hey, i was using that. What, you think we own stock in the Electric Company . 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And Mississippi State they were 21. 5 point underdogs in this game against uconn. That is a massive underdog. Uconn hadnt lost a game since november of 2014. The smallest player on the court as well is the one who came up with the biggest shot to end the historic streak. Check this out, Mississippi States 55 morgan william, the pullup jumper at the buzzer wins the game. Bulldogs everywhere going absolutely nuts including cowboys quarterback and Mississippi State alum dak prescott. He was in the stands rooting on his school there in dallas. The win sends the bulldogs to Sundays National championship game against South Carolina. I got my space, jumped up and made the shot when i made the shot. I was in shock. Im still in shock. Obviously, you know, when you get to this point in the season and you lose, its just its the worst feeling imaginable. All right. South carolina fans going to have a lot of basketball to watch this weekend. Tonight the men take on gonzaga in the final four in arizona. South carolina really the surprise of the tournament. Theyve already knocked out duke, baylor and florida to get this far. And their head coach frank martin says the pressure of tonights big game really does not get to his team. I dont know. Maybe im too dumb to understand what pressure is in sports. I get it. Were playing a real good team. Were playing on the biggest stage of them all. I understand all that. But we got to worry about ourselves. And we got to worry about keeping our ears to the right voices. We have to focus on all of us doing our jobs. Gonzaga and South Carolina going to get things started a little after 6 00 eastern then its North Carolina taking on oregon in the late game. Be sure to join us here on cnn 2 30 eastern this afternoon for all access at the final four. Cnn Bleacher Report special Fredricka Whitfield and steve smith going to get you ready for all of the action. Guys, you know, we got three newcomers and old staple in this years field so theres a good chance were going to see someone whos not won a championship or hasnt won one in a long time in oregons case, take home the title. Which is exciting. South carolina, hes got a good thought there. If you dont think it through too much, go out and play ball, you do your thing. Its hard not to because once you get to the final four, its a giant football stadium. Completely different atmosphere. Can we solve something, please . What . I picked gonzaga to win it overall but why am i 19th on the leaderboard . You didnt do too well in the earlier rounds. But you have your chance to rally, if gonzaga wins youre in the top five. Come on. Thank you, andy. Thank you, andy. All right, were taking you to the political arena next. Indeed. Next hour of your new day starts right now. Suddenly general flynn is out there saying he needs immunity. If youre not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for . That means you probably committed a crime. It wasnt that donald trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election. Isis and other terror groups have found a way to hide powerful explosives in electronic devices. To take down a commercial airliner has been the kind of holy grail of any of these various plethora of terrorist groups. Unfortunately theyre going to make it through on one of these bombs, thats my prediction. Want to wis