Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Wednesday, july 59, 8 00 in the east. We begin with north korea releasing new video of its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test. The u. S. And south korea responding to the escalating threat with a show of force of their own, conducting a joint military drill to send a message to kim jongun. The north korea threat likely to dominate the g20 summit this week. President trump is expected to depart for europe at any moment. In fact, you see movement there. During the summit, the president will hold a longawaited, facetoface meeting with russias Vladimir Putin. Cnn has every angle covered so lets get the latest from cnns barbara starr. She is live at the pentagon. Reporter keeping an eye on Andrews Air Force base outside washington as marine one approaches, the president taking off for g20, north korea likely to be near or at the top of the list after they fireded that Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, north korea putting out additional vid
Washington. He spent most of the long Holiday Weekend at his golf club in new jersey. And maybe, just maybe, hes also with his return trading twitter attacks for something else. Like preparing for what may be the most important meeting yet of his presidency. The first face to face with Vladimir Putin. Trumps expected to meet with the russian leader at the g20 summit this week. The president also on calls today with several world leaders, but it wasnt a complete about face. The weekend twitter attacks against the press continued today with this. I will read it. At some point the fake news will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers and strong economy. Success with isis, the border, and so much else. Which is ironic considering a rough analysis of the president s tweets show he spends most time tweeting talking about the media than he does anything else. Sara murray is live at the white house with more on this. Sara, a week that was dominated by his attack against a female journalis
Investigation. You will hear from him and senators from both parties that are on a mission. This is in just moments. In the meantime this is how donald trump jr. Is now defending the meeting he had more than a year ago with the russian lawyer on the promise of russian government information. In retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. To me this was Opposition Research cnn now has also learned that special Counsel Robert Mueller plans to investigate that meeting and all of those emails. Cnn reporters covering this from every angle as this story moves quickly. Lets begin with cnn senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny and you have a lot of color out of the west wing directly this morning feeling paralyzed. Reporter good morning. There is a sense of dismay in certain quarters of this west wing of the white house largely because they had hoped this week was a chance to turn the corner once again and focus on the president s agenda coming back from his g20 summit la
Since the president s public shaming of his embattled attorney general. All of this out against the backdrop of spiraling international tensions. Vice president mike pence warns north korea that all options are on the table after a missile test proves that major u. S. Cities are now within range of the Rogue Nuclear power. Moscow lashing out at the new u. S. Sanctions bill that right now is sitting on the president s desk. Hundreds of staffers booted. The kremlin warns it may not stop there. A lot to get to this monday morning on cnn. Sara murray is at the white house. A new chief of staff will be in place. What does that really mean for the president . Reporter thats what were waiting to see. Many of the president s allies are hoping that this retired fourstar general john kelly will be able to come in and create a fresh start, kickstart the president s agenda, but also calm down some of the chaos and backfighting weve seen in the west wing. His First Official day is today, as you sai
Cuomo and alisyn camerota. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. Its friday. July 21st. 6 00 in washington, d. C. Chris is off. And john berman joins me from new york. Great to see you. Nice to see you. The New York Times and Washington Post is reporting that the president s legal team is trying to undermine Robert Mueller, looking for conflicts of interest in order to discredit his russia investigation. The president is asking advisers about his ability to pardon his aides, his family members, and even himself. One day after President Trump warned the special counsel not to dig into his familys finances, bloomberg reports special counsel muellers investigation is expanding to do just that. All this as cnn learns the president is shaking up his legal team. The president unhappy with how his lawyers are fighting back. A lot going on. Were going begin with senior washington correspondent joe johns at the white house. Good morning. Repo