reporting, with a story like this. cnn s big scoop on monday described how in 2017, one of america s top spies inside the russian government was extracted, basically evacuated from russia. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto knew more about the spy s intel and identity, but kept it out of his reporting. it turns out that other news outlets had been chasing the same story, and those outlets then came out with more information. the new york times wrote about the agent s past work and his mission. nbc news revealed a possible location where the spy is living now and shared a story about visiting the house. all the while, the white house was claiming that reporting on this spy has the potential to put lives in danger. there s been a lot of reporting on this throughout the week, so let s break it down with jim sciutto. he s joining me now from washington. and new yorker susan glasser is here with me, as well. jim, one of the most explosive parts of your report said the f
lost in the reporting is that after that may 2017 meeting, as we reported in our story, two months later in july 2017, and this is the first time this was reported, president, famous meeting in hanburg, germany, with putin in which he confiscated the translator s notes, very unusual step, that after that the intelligence community again had concerns that the president had discussed classified intelligence with russians. this is not an isolated incident with this president. that s true. and that s also why i wanted to bring in susan here. susan, you ve been covering washington and also russia for many years. ha what s your analysis of the significance of this story and the journalistic efforts here. first of all, of course, when reading any national security story, you don t know what you don t know. and that applies whether you re a journalist or just a reader. and i think that s really something very important here. there s always a different way of framing events. so, obviously,
cnn s daniel dale found in three tweets, the president made three false claims while arguing that he shouldn t be kbeechimpeached. he s making up all of this stuff, lying constantly, yet he s winning the messaging war. it s a remarkable situation to see that in september of 2019, that this is the conversation about what the democrats may or may not do as they inch their way toward impeachment. so let s talk more about this with our panel that s with me here in new york today. joining me to discuss this is executive director for justice democrats and cnn commentator, zander rojas, dahlia, and susan glasser. thank you all for being here. i m fascinated by this daily coverage of this story. susan, this impeachment debate or maybe the lack of a debate is something that s confusing in washington, and i think, all across the country. confusing? i mean, that s right! i have no idea how to explain this. and you know, we re supposed to be following it. and so, brian, i think you really hit on
measure, including background checks. the president was in favor of some, after the parkland shooting a year ago, but after a conversation with nra officials backed off of that. the question is will he forge ahead again? the nra is having financial troubles, controversies, there is a thought that they are weaker than in the past, that this might be a moment that if the president were to push forward, he might be able to move the senate as well. all right, so let me hone in a little bit on the nra. you know it a lot better just by covering washington, the way washington works. wayne lapierre apparently called the president and told him to back off on background checks. it will be interesting to see how the president responds. he certainly doesn t like to be told what to do. but i m curious, is the nra going to be a roadblock in general on this issue? and if so, what s it take to level the balance for those that are saying let s do something. what is it they need? a stronger lobby orga
person in the world quote/unquote we think of nonetheless honoring kim jong-un. judy, this president, president trump i am talking about now, clearly likes to keep people off balance, i mean, you know, this who would have thought you know, 24 hours ago that something like this would be taking place? exactly. he is the master of the moment he is the master of the media he knows how to dominate the narrative the political narrative of this country, in a way that i have never seen in all my years of covering washington and person politics this is just the latest if not most dramatic example of that ability top totally, totally dominate a conversation both not only here but now in yiin a the rest of it world i was very struck by kim s assertion the first thing he said this is the first u.s. president to