Former Attorney Michael Cohen is ready to talk to special Counsel Robert Mueller and deliver a potential bombshell in the russia investigation. Cnns jeff zeleny is at the white house. This has been a whirlwind 24 hours. Start with the latest, this new invitation from president putin. Reporter no question. Good morning. The fallout from the helsinki summit is continuing with the back and forth between washington and moscow over will there be a second meeting. We are learning a few moments ago, Sarah Sanders said that President Trump is open to going to moscow if he has a formal invitation. They say they still look forward to having Vladimir Putin here in the u. S. After the first of the year. Of course, this is a walk back when he invited him here in the fall which many republicans were saying should not happen during or right after the midterm elections. This is all coming on the heels of the strong economic news. As you said, we saw the president in the south lawn of the white house r
elise labbott. wondering your thoughts on this speech the day it was delivered, what it means for the history of the world, what we witnessed there 80 years ago. well, jose, what happened 80 years ago, in no small part account for this extraordinary run of history ever since. i think historians will look back on the last three quarters of the century as something of a golden age. the way world war ii was finally resolved, the triumph of the democratic allies, and then much of the post world war ii era is quite extraordinary in what was accomplished and what was avoided. president gave a fine speech today, the problem is whether he is now speaking for the united states. and this country could change more after november, so as
us. a current and former u.s. official are telling me and my colleague elise labbott that u.s. officials met secretly with venezuelan military officers to discuss a possible coup against venezuelan president maduro. meeting with these military officers in several overt meetings over the last year, and these meetings happened abroad. washington ultimately decided against supporting this coup against the venezuelan president. we know this white house has sent a very firm stance against venezuela. they ve issued numerous sanctions. we know the president has said in the past that he is still considering a military option. he has kept open that possibility. we also reported earlier this summer that the president had previously talked to aides about the possibility of invading venezue venezuela. we also now know this coup that
but the problem is when the two leaders met and there s this agreement to kind of move forward, countries thought they could relax on the sanctions. so there s an oil ban, a petroleum ban, against north korea. now there seems to be transfers of oil, ship to ship transfers. and russia is responsible. china s responsible. they have pictures. also north korea s defying an arms embargo, trying to ship light arms place, proliferating weapons. so as the u.s. and north korea start to move closer together, countries feel that they can relax some of those sanctions and now north korea could get some of the retch knew that sanctions have been designed to put pressure to get them to give up the nuclear program. we ll see what s next. elise labbott, thanks so much. now to iran where the country s navy is holding military exercises in the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf and the war games come as the
all right, welcome back. let s get some new developments now with north korea. there was a very brief meeting between u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo and his north korean counterpart. they were both at a conference in singapore. the two spoke briefly, shook hands and then later pompeo passed along a letter from president trump. president trump actually received a letter from his own, of his own rather from the north korean leader kim jong-un earlier in the week. global affairs correspondent elise labbott is with me now. the interaction in singapore really not that spontaneous. right, he didn t hand it off, one of his guys did after they shook hands. it was so brief, you missed it. i did. you know, look, these letters are just pleasantries between president trump and kim jong-un. now letters have to be exchanged every time there s a north