stone s radio appearance came the very same day he sent an e-mail claiming he had dinner with wikileaks julian assange the night before, this according to a source familiar with that e-mail exchange. stone now denies that he met with assange. stone calls that timing just a coincidence. of course it s not the only coincidence. you ll remember before the famous june 9, 2016, trump tower meeting, two days before president trump himself said he has a big speech coming up to talk about hillary clinton and all the bad things she did, claimed in retrospect that was just a coincidence of timing and it could very well be a coincidence but it at least raises the question, how do the pieces of this web come together and an open question is was there the possibility that some in the trump orbit had some advance warning of some of these releases. jim sciutto, shimon, you re doing excellent reporting as always. thanks so much. also breaking right now, president trump ordering the immediate deplo
my guess is that s probably a prescription for something going wrong along the way. let hope we never have to say the sentence winging it and kim jong-un in the same breath ever again, david sanger. thank you so much. we ll see when this happens, if this happens, according to the white house. good to see you. thank you. thank you, brooke. coming up next here, he wrote an e-mail promising to engineer a trump presidency. a russian-born businessman involved in the trump tower moscow deal is speaking out. what he says trump once asked him to do and that response for the e-mail exchange with trump attorney michael cohen just ahead. so, that goal you ve been saving for,
criminal charges looming or pending. is there a possibility for that? there s always a possibility for something like that to occur. several of the victims still trapped in vehicles under that rubble. in a new sign that special counsel robert mueller s investigation advancing toward donald trump s red line, mueller is closing in on the heart of the president s business dealings. a source telling cnn mueller s team is seeking business documents. we re learning the as a russian born businessman involved in a deal to try to build a trump tower in moscow is speaking bout this e-mail exchange with trump s personal attorney, michael cohen. our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin s team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. here s what sater said.
guy named nikolas cruz. what do you have? we ve been through his house. we have written reports he s violent. we couldn t baker act him. we could not detain him because we didn t have sufficiency. so would the outcome have been any different? answer, no. solution, change the laws that allow police officers to detain someone for mental health issues. change the laws about someone who s in fbi files buying an assault weapon. that s what the president should be focused on, not on pointing fingers and looking for blame. and just very quickly, you mentioned the adam schiff e-mail exchange. we have to just get on the record here, trump on sunday, the president, tweeting, finally liddle adam schiff, is now blaming the obama administration for russian meddling in the 2016 election. he s finally right about something. obama was president, knew of the threat, and did nothing. thank you, adam. adam schiff responds he was on a
presumably there are some others as well and presumably they ll also give their accounts of what happened to mueller or congressional investigators. the house intelligence committee, they ve interviewed some big players this week, including the president s former associate of three decades. what do we know about that? she s been a longtime associate, personal assistant of the president at the trump organization. works in trump tower. we do know that the house intelligence committee has been interested in her because she has served as a gatekeeper of sorts. she s someone who presumably knew about contacts that may or may not have occurred with either russian officials or people within the trump oranges. and we know that e-mail exchange between rob goldstone who set up the meeting with donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort attended where he was promised dirt on the clinton campaign, she was mentioned in that e-mail exchange from rob goldstone to donald trump jr. saying, w