putin. royal royal. he meets the monarch after insulting her, denying it, then apologizing for it. i ll wolf blitzer, you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we are following breaking news. 12 russian military officers indicted into the moscow election meddling. the charges come three days before president trump sits down with the russian president, vladimir putin. we ll talk about that and more with james langford of the senate intelligence committee and our correspondents are standing by. first, details of the new indictments, our justice correspondent, evan perez, sheila are working the story for us. anthony is also joining us. exclusively, he served with the
decide whether or not to arrest a young woman after she was stopped for speeding. you see her sobbing. the man allegedly masquerading as a police officer. stopping a vehicle with the men inside. what he doesn t know. an unmarked car, two troopers waiting for him. and the rescue late today. the pictures coming in right now. and your money tonight. the major deals just hours away. amazon prime day is coming, and how you can get in on the big savings even if you are not a member. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. protests in london amid the president s visit, but first that bombshell indictment from the special counsel, robert mueller, charging 12 members of russia s top intelligence service, and tonight what they were accused of doing for eight months leading up to the moment americans voted. deputy attorney general rob rosenstein alleging the suspects secretly targeted more than 300 people with ties to the democratic party and to h
i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. reporter: the deputy attorney general briefed president trump on the charges before he left for his overseas trip and stressed politics should stay out of a serious, legal matter. we need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable. we need to keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference and defend america. reporter: the chances are slim that the russian intelligence officers will ever face these charges here in the u.s. in fact, in a previous indictment, the special counsel charged 13 russian nationals in february and the russian government refused to get the summons and notices to those defendants. now, there is the course of democrats urging president trump to demand extradition of the russian officers when he meets president putin face-to-face on monday. of course, jake, it remains to
the presidential campaign of donald j. trump. we do not know how or whether any of the officers indicted had anything to do with alleged efforts by the kremlin to reach out to donald trump jr., with dirt on hillary clinton, or george papadopoulos, who was told about clinton e-mails with ties to the kremlin. nor do we know about the potential impact of that moment on july 27, 2016, during the democratic national convention when candidate donald trump shared a message he had for russia about e-mails hillary clinton deleted. russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. that was july 27th, 2016. july 27th. today s indictment says even though the russians were trying to use the technique known as
prosecutors are not infallible. but what is rashabemarkable to things like this officer s name on this day searched this title, they are saying we can prove this in a public court. and that is an extraordinary thing. usually the way that this stuff works is behind closed doors. intelligence, counterintelligence, hacks, counterhacks. this is the american criminal justice system this is a crime, you are being skboiindicted and can public lly prove this in court. you re laying out how it all happened, who was involved and the next step is to lay out who are the co-conspirators. but i also think that it s really interesting. the whole idea that donald trump asked russia essentially to hack hillary clinton s e-mail servers on the same day that russia did go ahead and do that, that s something brand new that we learned in the indictment and you laid that out in your opening segment.