Started strategizing in late june how to handle the release of those emails connected to the meeting kushner was forwarded. The white house aides could be facingi facinging scrutiny of their own. Jeff zeleny is live where the president just left. Jeff, what does this mean for this white house . Reporter kate, there has been one phrase and one answer that has been used every time questions are asked of the white house about anything with the russian investigation. I refer you to outside council. The reason for that is, the white house aides and spokes people do not want to get ensnared in the ongoing investigation. That may have changed last weekend. When the president was flying home from germany, the New York Times reported the existence. We know about the meeting in june of 2016 with the russian government lawyer and donald trump jr. , as well as Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. On that air force one flight, we are told several Staff Members helped with the response to that and broug
Graham said the reports were basically accurate. The question now, whos telling the truth in this he said he said about what he said. Lets get straight to boris sanchez. Hes live in palm beach where the president spent the weekend. We have senators cotton and purdue now essentially accusing their colleagues of lying . Reporter thats right and going back on what they said just a few days ago when they said they couldnt recall exactly what the president said. It seems their memory was shaken and now theyre denying outright that President Trump said these reported comments about african nations and about the number of visas being granted to haitians. Theres a very divided response to this reporting on the president s comments during the thursday meeting with lawmakers about two dozen republicans have come out and condemned them. Some of them like graham had a mixed response. He didnt outright say that the president said it but he did say he confronted the president about his remarks and a
Hard on immigration. Reporter it was a heavy immigrationthemed rally. He spoke many different times, returning to the topic, hitting many familiar themes but also talking about whats happening south of the border with the caravan of migrants. Looking over the camera, the president is actually still talking to the travel pool. This is feeding back to cnn as im speaking. I want you to listen in to some of the comments that he just made to reporters a few moments ago. Well be working with congress because theyre very involved, and i wanted to keep them involved. Much as i did with justice kavanaugh. I wanted to keep them involved. I think its important. [ inaudible ] no, we dont. Somebody knows, but nobody of the various investigation groups at this moment know, but well find out. They havent identified that its a concern. Wed like too find out where it is and what happened. And i think were inching our way there. Has anyone in the u. S. Government heard audio or seen video from the no, w
in 1988 a kgb officer code named max began to provide information on moles who had been planted by the kgb inside u.s. intelligence. their role was to help the kgb eliminate any soviet agents working for the united states, to create a blind spot in moscow for u.s. intelligence for years to come. well, that information actually led to the arrest of three american intelligence officers working on behalf of the russians and the fbi and the cia. there is still a lingering question, what if it wasn t just those through? what if there was another mole who was never found. joining us is bob baier cnn intelligence and security analyst, former cia operative and also author of the fourth man the hunt for a kgb spy at the top of the cia and the rise of putin s russia. i m totally fascinated by this book, bob, and just by that premise, right, was there another mole? the book is titled the fourth