of his a lot. do you understands what happened or why? i do not. the last i knew, he was in love. he was happy. he said love abounds, some of the last words he said to me. that was a while ago. when i saw him, he looked tired. but i have no idea. i think his best friend, eric ripert, was with him and found him. eric would be the only person who d know and i don t know if he knows. i don t know. you ve heard people say there s nobody like anthony bourdain, and there was no show like parts unknown. to that, we want to pay tribute to anthony bourdain, cnn, with a special night of episodes beginning tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here only on cnn. president trump will be on his way to singapore to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un very soon. we ll take a look at the venue
so many people are still trying to reconcile what has happened in the last 24 hours. anthony bourdain here at cnn, our colleague, died at the age of 61. he took his own life. he was found in his hotel room in france yesterday where he was working on an upcoming episode of parts unknown. a talented chef, traveled, gifted storyteller. he used his books and shows to explore cuisine, but more than that, culture. he was a master of his craft. and his awardwinning series, parts unknown, highlighted how much we all have in common. paolo sandoval shows us how he really made the world seem far more accessible. reporter: few people know anthony bourdain the way eric ripert did. he often appeared on parts unknown with bourdain.
the department. reporter: mesa police chief ramon batista taking action. announcing a trio of investigations including one led by the washington, d.c.-based police executive research forum which will examine the department s use of force over the last three years. former mayor copa attorney rick e=romley will conduct a review. it s going to be hard inside the department. my team and i will work every single day to make sure these situations don t happen again. reporter: cnn. special counsel robert mueller hit former trump campaign chairman paul manafort with a new indictment. this time charging him and a russian business associate with obstruction and conspiracy charges for alleged witness tampering. manafort s attorneys say that these charges are based on the, quote, thinnest of evidence. cnn political correspondent sara murray has all of the details
call away. cnn, new york. anderson cooper sat down with a good friend of anthony bourdain s, food writer michael rodeman. the two traveled to so many locations together on his shows, no reservations, parts unknown. want to share with you part of their conversation. he loved people, and he loved culture and food. he loved what he was doing. here was a guy who was a drug addict and a line cook for half his life and transformed himself into award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and an extraordinarily successful tv personality which he hate to call himself, but that s what he was. he transformed the medium of food journalism, food travel shows. he did so much and never forgot how lucky he was to be where he was. he was always humble. i m going to ask a question which i don t think there s an answer to, but i m sure it s going to be a question that you re going to get as a friend
crimea. the president has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies. cnbc cnn s brian todd with more. reporter: analysts say it s the kind of endorsement the russian leader vladimir putin could only dream of getting, but now it s coming from a very powerful source, the president of the united states. russia should be in this meeting. why are we having a meeting without russia being in the meeting? reporter: president trump s impromptu idea to reinstate russia into the g7, the elite group of the world s leading industrial nations, delivered on his way to the summit is exactly the type of victory critics say putin wants. president trump extending this invitation does make vladimir putin s day. it s accomplishing everything putin has set out to accomplish in dividing the united states from his closest partners. reporter: experts say putin is facing trouble at home like a stagnant economy, and that he longs for the