The latest version of the health care bill, but two republicans have come out against it. One more no could be too many for the fwoil pass. And men behind the missile. Kim jongun celebrates his long range Missile Launch does it reveal clues of intelligence . Wolf blitzer off, im jim acosta, youre in the situation room. It took another trip overseas to get President Trump to take questions of the news media and the public in paris with french president emanuel macron. He defended the sitdown with the russian lawyer saying it was a short meeting that went very, very quickly. While stunning emails shows his son embraced help in attacking Hillary Clinton, the president insisted that most people would have take than meeting. Before leaving washington, the president dismissed what he called the russia story as a hoax made up by the democrats, but on capitol hill, both sides are treating it as anything but. Senate judiciary Chuck Grassley wants donald trump jr. To testify. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi wants the security clearance revoked for jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, who like manafort was also at the russia meeting. And shes calling for the releefs Electronic Communications within the Trump Campaign and trump family. Meantime, Senate Republicans are wrang lg over their leaderships latest version of a health care bill, but divisions between conservatives and moderates may still prevent passage. There are at least two no votes so far and the leadership cant afford one more. Ill talk with congressman castro of the intelligence and foreign affair committees and our correspondence specialists and guests are standing by with full coverage of the top stories. We begin with President Trump amid all the ceremony the state visit to france defending his sons meeting with the russian attorney, cnn White House Correspondent sarah murray is in paris, sarah. Reporter well, jim, it was a trip designed to celebrate longlasting military allowances to build stronger ties with the french president. And to see some of the historical sites in paris, but even here, even abroad, President Trump could not escape questions about what exactly his son was doing meeting with the russian lawyer. As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. Reporter President Trump jumping to his sons defense at a press conference in paris. Insisting donald trump jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer was typical campaign fair. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research. Thats very standard in politics. Politics is not the nicest business in the world, but its very standard. Reporter the comments coming in the wake of another russia revelation. This time, a meeting last june between the president s eldest son and a russian lawyer. Who purportedly had dirt on Hillary Clinton. The lawyer was described in an email to donald trump jr. As a russian government lawyer. Part of a russian government effort to help the Trump Campaign, according to that email. Trump, arriving today amid much pomp and circumstance, only to find he couldnt escape the problems that plague him at home. Took a meeting with a lawyer from russia, it lasted for a very short period, and nothing came of the meeting. Reporter as russia dominates the headlines in the United States, here in france, trump has focussed on forging another strategic partnership. Quickly jumping at french president emanuel macrons invitation to visit for bastille day festivities, and the 100 Year Anniversary of americas entrance into world war i. I said, mr. President , i will be there. Thats a big, important date. 100 years. Reporter the two leaders didnt shy away from their differences, particularly on Climate Change. Translator next, climate. Well, here we know what our disagreements are. We have expressed them on a number of occasions. Something could happen with respect to the paris accord, well see what happens. Reporter but both men made clear, they were dining tonight at the eiffel tower as close allies. Good friendship. And we look forward to dinner tonight at the eiffel tower. Itll be something special. Reporter the two World Leaders noting their bilateral meeting focussed on building stronger ties on trade and fighting terrorism. While trump made the city of light his punching bag in the past, particularly on National Security issues if you look at whats happening in france, its no longer friends. Friends of mine that used to love to go to paris, they say were not going to paris anymore. Its no longer paris. Reporter today, trump lavished praise on his french counterpart. Off great leader now. You have a great president. You have a tough president. Hes not going to be easy on people that are breaking the laws. Reporter vowing it wont be this american president s last trip to paris. And im coming back. You better do a good job, please. Otherwise youre going to make me look very bad. Reporter now President Trump has made clear hes not afraid of breaking a little bit of glass at the world stage. And that was no different today. He broke what is considered protocol in his press conference with the french president , usually two american journalists get a question, and two of the local journalists get a question, well, when emanuel macron told President Trump to call on his final american journalist, he instead opted to call on a Television Reporter from a chinese news outlet, back to you, jim. Very strange, sarah murray, thank you very much. President trump may be down playing the meeting of his son along with others, but lawmakers on both sides are taking it seriously. Lets turn to justice correspondent pamela brown, donald trump appears to want this to go away. Its not going away, is it. Its not. In fact now it seems that don jr. , his son, may soon be questioned as part of the russia probe on capitol hill in the wake of the emails he released showing this discussion about meeting with the russian lawyer, republican senator Chuck Grassley says his committee is sending a bipartisan letter to donald trump jr. Requesting that he testify before the judiciary committee. Lawmakers want to know about his connection to the wealthy russian family and then allegedly behind the meeting, and whether a phone call ever took place between don jr. And ank lar ra before the meeting as the emails might suggest. During this exchange, the aguilars publicist says, hi don, let me know when you are free to talk by phone about the hillary info. Don jr. Responds, rob, could we speak now . Goldstone writes, let me track him down in moscow. What number should he call . Don jr. Replies, call his cell, and then goldstone says, okay, hes on stage in moscow, but should be off within 20 minutes. I am sure he can call. That was at 3 43 p. M. On june 6th, nearly an hour later, don jr. Replies, rob, thanks for the help, raising the question of whether a phone call took place during that time. Around 24 hours later, goldstone sent another email saying, asked that i schedule a meeting, you and russian government attorney. I believe you are aware of the meeting. So how else would he be aware of the meeting one might ask . The lawyer denied a phone call ever happened. Really cant speak to what Rob Goldstone was thinking or what he wrote or why, but ill tell you again that that call didnt happen. I dont know if there was someone else who spoke to donald trump jr. About this perspective meeting, but it wasnt my client. And again, i dont know where mr. Goldstone got his information from, but its just categorically incorrect. Reporter weve reached out to the attorney, were awaiting comment on this and whether he will testify on capitol hill, but i can tell you, jim, Robert Mueller who is overseeing the probe, the special council probe will be looking at any communications, of course, as we know, scrutinizing this email exchange, this meeting at trump tower, and this is all going to be part of that. Sounds like they may want more records than don jr. Released yesterday. Thats right. Thank you very much. Joining me now, Joaquin Castro of texas, member of both the intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. Congressman, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me, jim. Congressman, President Trump defended his son today by saying his lawyer wasnt working for this or this lawyer wasnt working for the russian government and that most people would have take than same meeting. What is your reaction to that . That seems to be the comment that made the most news today. What is your take on that . Well on the one hand r hand, its not a surprise a father is going to defend his son. Here it happens to be the president of the United States, but substantively, i completely disagree with his comment. Yes, Opposition Research is common in politics, but meeting with officials of a Foreign Government, specifically an official of a country that is an adversary of the United States is not Standard Practice at all. And if you look at that email chain, its also clear that donald trump jr. Probably knew ahead of time what that meeting was going to be about. So the emails to me raise as many questions as they answered. And yesterday, when the president was speaking to reporters on air force one, we should point out, those comments were off the record and the white house for whatever reason made them on the record. President trump said of his son, quote, hes a good boy, hes a good kid. Is the president trying to make it seem as if donald trump jr. Didnt know any better, we should point out, donald trump jr. Is 39 years old, congressman, i hope you dont mind, we looked up your age, i believe its 42. Thats right. Thats right. Yeah, and its not a surprise again that he would try to shield his son, but here youre dealing with the president and the president s son who is very involved in the politics of the nation. And so, at 39 years old, you have to know better than to take a meeting with a representative of a Foreign Government when the person who was doing the introduction specifically says that the russian government is attempting to aid your fathers campaign. Thats completely unacceptable. Its not normal. And its unpatriotic also. So youre saying that the president s son behaved here in an unpatriotic fashion, is that what youre saying. Absolutely. Thats a pretty strong charge. Its the son of the president of the United States, you want to expand on that . Well, to be meeting with a representative of a Foreign Government, to get involved in american democracy, to effect an election for the highest office of this land, yes, i think thats unpatriotic. And do you think it represents collusion to you . Do you believe that laws potentially have been broken here . Do you want to see donald trump jr. Testifying publicly on capitol hill about this . I have said that the House Intelligence Committee on which i sit should call donald trump jr. And everyone who was in that meeting to come testify and also request further documents from each of those persons. So yes, i think this should be brought in. And we should point out that we dont know for a fact that this slaughter not a representative of the russian government, thats what weve been told, but yesterday yeah, we dont know that she is. The president told reuters he only learned of this meeting a couple of days ago. What do you make of that . Of that comment . Do you buy that . Its possible. At this point, we dont know, but remember, donald trump jr. s story has changed multiple times about what exactly happened in that meeting, you know, why he agreed to take the meeting. We know that President Trump, unfortunately, has a long history of falsehoods and telling falsehoods. So its very hard to trust anything that the president says. Or that his son says at this point. And, what do you think needs to happen next in this investigation . Do more emails need to be brought in . Don jr. Only released four pages of emails yesterday, presumably there may be others, pamela brown was just talking about possibly there being a phone conversation at the potential was there for a phone conversation, and that opens up the possibility of phone records, and we know that on air force one and these off the record, now on the record comments from the president , he sounded receptive to the idea of his son testifying, how much disclosure do you need to see to be satisfied by donald trump jr. In all of this . We need to see everything they have with respect to any kind of interactions with russian business owners, tycoons, folks who wanted to have an influence on that campaign. We cant assume that because donald trump jr. Said nothing came of the meeting, that in fact, nothing came of the meeting. I think we need to follow the paper trail, the email trail, and get further evidence before we can make that determination. And, fbi official who oversaw the clinton email investigation has now joined bob muellers team, the special prosecutor in all of this. I remember during the campaign, we talked so much about computer servers, would you like to see servers brought into all of this . Is that a leap too far do you think at this point . Or has this sort of opened up pandoras box for the trump family in all of this . Well, on the one hand, you want to make sure everybody has due process and its a fair process, at the same time, i think many americans, most americans, cant help but think that if somebody basically provided a paper trail, would suggest that its quite possible that they committed a crime. If this was an ordinary american, theres a good chance that the fbi or someone in Law Enforcement agency would be at their home collecting documents, computer servers, et cetera, and files to figure out how they could get to the bottom of that question. And what do you make of just very quickly, what do you make of when you hear some of the talking points from the republican side, whether just to crime that was committed here. There wasnt a crime committed in this meeting, why are we talking about criminal activity . What is your response to that . On the one hand, i think its very sad that that is the state of american politics today, and on the other hand, its very scary that people would deny and turn away from things that are obviously very concerning and possibly already very detrimental to the nation and potentially even more detrimental information. Okay, congressman, stand by, we have more to talk about. Including the president talking about inviting Vladimir Putin over to the white house. We to want take a quick break and well talk to you about this on the other side of the break. Well be right back. Caspers truly changed our lives. A mattress of unparalleled value. Love at first night. Im a softer, happier, friendlier version of myself. Perfect sleep changes people. Transform your life at casper. Com. Try their mattress for 100 nights with Free Shipping and returns. Casper. [ thats a good thing, eligible for medicare . But it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. 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Were glad they did, but the president was asked would he invite Vladimir Putin over to the white house, and he said, quote, i would say yes at the right time, i dont think this is the right time, but the answer is, yes, i would. After everything that has gone on with the investigation and is ongoing right now, what do you make of the president saying that he would invite Vladimir Putin over to the white house . Well, i just i wouldnt reward Vladimir Putin with a white house visit at this point, after everything thats gone on after russia interfered with the american president ial election in 2016. I think it would be a very bad move and in poor taste to do that. So, im glad the president realizes that at least, at the moment, he shouldnt have him over at the white house. And do you think at some point, six months, year from now, that that would be okay . How long do you think he should wait . The way things are going, no, it would not be okay. Now, we need to get to the bottom of this investigation, and figure out the full scope of what russia has done, but, at this point, i dont see that on the horizon. And the vice chair of the senate Intelligence Committee has raised questions about how these socalled russian bots knew to target specific demographics of voters and specific jurisdictions in states like michigan and wisconsin, is that something that your committee is looking into, you know, this very specific and very, you know, hightech potential attack on states like michigan and wisconsin . It doesnt seem like we have the full scope of what the russians were trying to do. It seems like it was more than just getting damaging information on Hillary Clinton out there. Yeah. Well, you could imagine i dont to want divulge any of the classified part of the investigation, but i will speak for myself in seeing that its something that im very interested in. How exactly russia used paid trolls and others with technical and cyber skills to essentially wage a Propaganda Campaign to help elect donald trump. Thats something that we absolutely need to figure out because if we dont understand it and punish for it, then theres a good chance that russia and other nations who have the same capability, and nonstate actors will try to do the same thing in subsequent elections. And just quickly, when you hear the president orders say youre trying to delegitimize his election, take the election away from him, what do you say to that . Is that true . Are you trying to take this victory away from him . No, donald trump won the election, you know, theres no, theres no debate over that, nobody is trying to relitigate the president ial election itself, were trying to understand and account for who interfered with the election and specifically whether any part was an inside job. Whether any americans coordinated with the russians who interfered with our election. Okay, congressman castro, we appreciate your time very much. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Coming up, President Trump again says most people would have agreed like the one his son had with the russian attorney, but that answer is at odds with what the nominee for fbi director told senators just yesterday. Also north Koreas Kim Jongun hands out medals as he continues taunting the United States. Its not just a car, its your daily treat. Go ahead, spoil yourself. The es and es hybrid. Experience amazing. So we know how to cover almost alanything. Ything, even a coupe soup. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you. [burke] and we covered it, november sixth, twothousandnine. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum anyone who calls it a hobby doesnt understand. 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It was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast. Two other people in the room, i guess one of them left almost immediately and the other one was not really focussed on the meeting. I do think this, i think from a practical standpoint, most people would have take than meeting. Its called Opposition Research, or Even Research into your opponent. And he basically said the same thing last night in that off the record conversation reporters that became on the record, magically today, the white house waved a wand and now the comments are on the record. What do you make of the president s comments about this . Hes awfully casual about someone doing this. And then he went on in his statement there to talk about how this is a lawyer who walked the halls of congress, in fact, she really didnt work for the russian government, and that her visa was approved by none other than the attorney general, loretta lynch. I think he talked way too much. I think the best answer would have been a short answer which is i love my son and i dont believe he did anything wrong. And, you know, now everyone will have to investigate. But that is not the way this president behaves. And then jeffrey he blamed loretta lynch, the former attorney general for letting this russian lawyer into the country. Its always the Clinton Administration the clintons fault here on the obama administrations fault here. Were always editing the president. You know what, he is who he is, and he got elected president of the United States being that way. Were long past the moment when the great pivot was going to come oh, jeffrey. Ancient history by now. He is who he is, and he has views that are distinctive, sometimes false, but, you know, hes not going to change. I would say its not very standard, to me, with somebody from a Foreign Government who says, they have information on your opponent and to take that meeting. Okay. And Charles Grassley is saying who thinks that it is . The president. Right. I mean, any normal human being would understand that thats not how you operate, specifically in the world of politics, which we all know is extremely dirty, right . Politics is about as dirty as it gets. This goes one step too far as far as getting his own nominee for the fbi director said this is not what you should be doing. He said, call the fbi if you do this. So presumably, president should call the fbi, i guess. But Charles Grassley i dont think thats going to happen. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Chairman wants donald trump jr. To testify. Caitlin, this is just setting up a very unusual situation for this white house, where theyre going to have to watch it was bad enough when the white house thought they had to sit there and watch james comey testify, but the prospect of the people around the white house sitting and watching television, the president watching television, he says he doesnt watch a lot of television, but he watches a lot of television, watching his own son testify. I think it would really raise the stakes for don jr. , because going on Sean Hannitys show and answering questions about your meeting with someone who you thought was a russian government attorney, regardless of whether she was or not, its what you walk in thinking, and then testifying in front of congress under oath about it are two very different things. And i think there are questions probably would be a little bit tougher than sean hannity and theyd want to know about other communication and what all was said during that meeting. I dont think they would buy it was just about adoption. And its not just that he would be testifying under oath, he would be testifying under oath while there is a special council who has the power to indict people for making false statements in front of congress. So, i mean, it would be a highrisk scenario for him to testify. Well, but he has said that hes willing to. Okay. He wants to get he has been very forthcoming about it. He released the emails and there is clearly going to be a document search and theyre going to to want know whether there were phone calls as caitlin was saying. Other communications. Right, i think it would be way more forthcoming because the only forthcomingness weve seen so far, he released after the New York Times said they were going to publish them, and then he went on a show that is friendly to his fathers administration to answer questions about it. Its not like he went to an independent outlet to answer. And grassley also wants to look at the visa of this russian lawyer, and he wants to look at how that was approved, not necessarily by lynch, but was she on an expired visa, et cetera. Maybe back to a conversation about unmasking. Who knows. Well see. All right. Well, well talk about more of this when we get right back after a quick break. Including some of the president s comments about Climate Change, which sounded like something the president had resolved, but maybe not. Well talk about that when we get back. Im karen, im a teacher. Olfer. My Psoriatic Arthritis caused joint pain. Just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And i was worried about joint damage. My doctor said joint pain from ra can be a sign of existing joint damage that could only get worse. He prescribed enbrel to help relieve pain and help stop further damage. Enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. 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Forced to cobble together 50 votes far bill that no one seems to particularly love. Once again, very little room for error. Reporter within just a few hours of the senate gops newest version of health care reform, the bill is in jeopardy. Rand paul of kentucky, Susan Collins of maine are firm noes, but for different reasons. Clean repeal, thats what we promised the voters. Still deep doubts medicaid and senate bill will vote no on mtp, ready to work with gop and dem colleagues to fix flaw. The bill is designed to fulfill the gop Campaign Promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. And there is no one with more at stake at this stage of the debate than Senate Majority leader mcconnell who was personally called out by President Trump on wednesday. Hes got to pull it off. Yeah. Mitch has to pull it off, hes working hard. He has to pull it off. Reporter mcconnell the leader of the senate promised a revised plan would help bring the party together. After extensive consultations across the conference, millions of constituents and intensive conversations with members, our conference has updated the last months better care and discussion draft. With additional provisions to make it stronger. Reporter but the plan is not the Major Overhaul that some senators were looking for. It keeps in place many of the sharp medicaid cuts proposed. Includes a version of the socalled cruz amendment that allows insurers that sell obamacare plans to offer policies outside the confines of Affordable Care act regulations. It adds more money to state stabilization funds to help lower premiums, particularly for the sick. The bill also avoided repealing obamacare taxes for wealthy americans, a reversal from the previous gop plan, and it boosts funding to combat the opioid crisis. While the mood coming out of an all gop senators closed door meeting was positive, there are still concerns that the bill doesnt go far enough. The old version repealed most of the obamacare taxes, this repeals about half. Reporter the bill is now in the hands of the Congressional Budget Office which will forecast how much this bill will cost and how much it will impact insurance coverage. The first vote, a critical stoep allow debate on the bill could come as soon as tuesday, and even undecided senators like tom tillis of North Carolina are asking their colleagues to allow that vote to go through. Im willing to take that position that we should debate it, get on the bill, consider amendments. Reporter but right now senate lead verse a lot of work to do to get the 50 votes they need. And if this bill does make it to a vote, and that is a big if, expect a flurry of amendments to the bill, including one that will be proposed by senators Lindsey Graham and bill cassidy, which theyre touting as an alternative plan that would give more control over Health Care Decisions to the states. Jim. A lot of ifs, not a lot of whens. Around ryan nobles, thank you very much. Lets get our insights from specialists here. Mark protest ton, it seems to me you may find Mitch Mcconnell folks saying weve got enough votes here, and then the cbo score is going to come out. And it may not show 23 million or 24 million like it did over in the house, maybe its going to show somewhere in the low 20s, high teens right. Can they still swallow that . No. I dont think moderates can. Lets start at a baseline. Were not talking about democratic votes. Strictly republican votes. And theyre trying to pass this on a razor thin margin. Now take a step back. What does that mean . Were talking about something that is so important to our economy right now, where you have half the United States senate thats against it, and you know, a sliver of the republican conference that is not for it either. Rand paul and Susan Collins who thinks its too tstrident when t comes back to paul ryan or donald trump who says hes going to be angry. Gloria, how long can this go on . Can they take the summer . Well, theyre talking about getting rid of half the recess in august. This is important to them. This is something every single republican campaigned on. Repeal and replace. And if they cant do it, theres going to be hell to pay. And if they do do it, theres going to be hell to pay. Theyre stuck here. And the problem they have, quite frankly, is that when you lose these moderates, you know, there really isnt much of a margin for them. And, you know, look, health care is always passed, we saw with president obama, it passed by one vote. May very well do that here again, but theyre going to have to make sure that these governs, in these states, that are on the fence or dont like this, like in the state of ohio or the state of nevada, that if they can get the governors on board, they will be able to get some of these senators on board. Although, you know, the polling shows that this bill is somewhere around 15 to 20 , support. I dont know i cant imagine that this change that mcconnell announced today is going to change those polling numbers. So how do you ask senators to support a bill that 80 of the public opposes . I just think thats politicians dont work that way in my experience. And speaking of things that could or could not happen, the president said today in paris that when he was asked about possibly reentering the paris climate accord, caitlin, he said, something could happen, even though the white house had this huge announcement that were pulling out of the paris climate accord, do you think the president could possibly come back to a position where, okay, maybe well renegotiate this or maybe well get back to this thing. As you and i both know, it would not be unusual for the president to change his mind. Youre right, they had this huge celebration, there was a band, refreshments when they pulled out of the paris climate accord, and hes incredibly critical of it, tonight we didnt see any of that criticism. Even though they both acknowledged on stage they had their differences about it, but he wasnt critical at all and left the floor open to put possibly reenter it. Which left a lot of people confused because hes been so heavily critical of it in these past few weeks. In the end, do you think hes going to change on it . I mean, as he said to people, he did this for his base they said it was promise a he could keep. It was a promise he could keep. And could this be one much those things where donald trump just didnt want to get into kind of an argument with president of france that he was standing next to because he wanted to be gracious to a degree . Maybe hes hearing about this from his friend, jim. Jim . His friend who likes to visit paris. Who likes to visit paris. Does anybody, mark preston, youve been working your sources all day today, do we know who the mysterious jim is . I feel like where are the tapes . No. No, we dont. But again, like i dont think hes talking about me. This whole administration no, we dont know where he is. You know, lets go back to Climate Change though, i think caitlins right about this. Is that trump needed to do it because he told his base that, however, i do think he could come back and someone whos very close to him said that to me today, said you know what, now hes free to do what he wants because he held his promise. Do we always talk about climate in terms of the politics of it . The climate is actually a science issue. And the the climates going to continue warming, regardless of what his base wants or, you know its actually science, its not politics. It is science, unlike the ieft jim at this point. Which is not settled. Were on the case. Thanks very much. More fallout from donald trump jr. s meeting with the lawyer expecting her to pass along damaging information about Hillary Clinton. President trump says most people would have take than meeting. And next, north Koreas Kim Jongun taunts the u. S. Because of its latest ballistic Missile Launch. We have much more ahead on President Trump in france. We are bringing in new pictures of north Korean Leader kim jongun celebrating and taunting the u. S. Because of his ballistic Missile Launch. Always Something Interesting happening with kim jongun. Tonight we have gotten new images of this high profile awards ceremony where kim shows gratitude to the scientist responsible for the intercontinental ballistic Missile Launch. An official tells us he lavishes attention on officials. Kim may have inadvertently given enemies key intelligence about three scientists who drive his Missile Program. North koreas news anchor sounds joying as she announces kim jonguns arrival. He is the star of his own show speaking behind 12 microphones there to celebrate his intercontinental Ballistic Missile firing. One woman who receives an award cant contain her emotions on stage. Kims missile test may have fallen short on reentry. Analysts say this public awards ceremony was designed to project success to his people and send a message. It was to provoke the world and consolidate the image of north korea as a true Nuclear Power that emerged victoriously out of this long standoff. Reporter kim may not have realized this may have intelligence value for his rivals. Analyst who consults about north Korean Leaders tells cnn this man receiving an award is former air force general and behind him an accomplished rocket scientist. These are kim jonguns top missile managers. Reporter the three superstars behind kims Missile Program and are believed to be at every launch. At least one seen on july 4 when the long range missile was fired. Cnn is told intelligence agencies around the world are watching these three men careful, their body language and behavior toward kim are different from other elites. They share hugs, smiles and cigarettes with their vicious boss and enjoy privileges not given to most north koreans. These are gentleman who live in basically a whole floor of an apartment high rise. They have domestic staff. Their family members get to go to elite schools. They have top health care. Reporter analysts say this shows how these scientists are kims key to threatening the west. It is significant to note that those scientists who accompanied kim jongun when he visited his fathers tomb recently and used to rely heavily on military leaders to support his regime. Now his power bases seem to have shifted to scientists who enable the success of missiles launched. 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