A Gale Force Storm even by the president s standards. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on friday indicted 13 russians for meddling in the 2016 u. S. Election. The indictments focused on social influence from moscow, not collusion or obstruction. The president tweeted the indictment proved no collusion. The president avoided the golf course this weekend at maralago as a sign of respect after the Florida School shooting. He watched tv and got riled up by eric and donald junior who urged him to take a harder line on the fbi. He did. As you can see, the president quoted the Deputy Attorney general and all in an effort to downplay collusion. And tried to talk about the repeated dismissal of the Russian Investigation which he calls a hoax. The president finished up with this, quote, if it was the goal of russia to create chaos and disruption within the United States with all an of the Committee Hearings and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their
Feeds and minds, Vladimir Putin paying to write garbage and spread it on social media. Today, the troll farm at the very heart of the russia probe. Welcome to the lead. We begin with breaking news in the russia investigation involving president Donald Trumps own family. Cnn has learned that special counsel Robert Muellers interest in the president s soninlaw and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has expanded now beyond kushners contacts with russia and now includes his efforts to secure money for his company from Foreign Investors during the president ial transition. This according to multiple sources. During that time, kushner was also the lead contact for foreign governments trying on reach his fatherinlaw, the president elect. Joining me to break this story, also with us, sarah murray on a key new development. Though i want to start with you. What is at the center of what youre learning in terms of muellers investigation . Thats right. Cnn has learned that mueller is asking questions a
Around the world. Im rosemary church. And im George Howell from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Newsroom starts right now. And we start with anger turning into action in the u. S. State of florida. A Deadly School shooting killed 17 people there last wednesday. Well, now many of the survivors say they will march on washington to demand tougher gun laws. Theyre calling it the march for our lives and want students to descend on the capitol on march 24th. Survivors and supporters held this rally saturday to condemn lawmakers beholden to the gun industry. The u. S. President donald trump has been in the state of florida. He took time out there to meet with a couple of survivors from that shooting. The white house says the president plans to discuss Campus Safety with students and teachers this week, but that may be overshadowed by a tweet he made about the shooting on saturday, a tweet linking the shooting to the russia investigation. It has sparked outrage. Our Boris Sanchez reports. R
Jillian donald trump drinking cup rosanne to congratulate him on great ratings on the reboot. Fox and friends first continues right now. Rob still dark out there. In midtown this morning, we have stories on that. We will talk about other things. It is 5 am on the east coast. Jillian thanks for starting the day with us. The fbi and doj under investigation for alleged pfizer abuses in the russia probe. Text messages between peter stzrok and lisa page suggest coordination between the Intel Community and the Obama Administration. Reporter doj Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reviewing what the Justice Department and fbi knew when they asked the federal court to let them spy on carter pages communications. Page was an advisor to donald trump. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say when federal investigators went to the pfizer court they didnt tell the court the dossier used to help make their case was financed in part by democrats. They were penalized to some degree the in
A wright right wing firing squad. It looks like mueller is still hot on the collusion trail. Finally, is donald trump planning to pardon himself out of all his russian business . Lets start with trumps bromance with despotic north korea. Is this power in this case kim jonguns the greatest after froe fro december yak. Senior north korean officials spent about an hour and 20 minutes inside the oval office. There he is meeting with President Trump. Kim alcohol delivered a personal letter from kim jongun. Afterwards, President Trump and mike pompeo posed for photos outside with the north korean delegation. The result trump announced the summit in singapore was officially back on. He sounded an upbeat note about it. Lets watch him. I didnt cancel the meeting. I canceled it in response to a very tough statement and i think were over that, totally over that. And were going to deal and were going to start a process. Were meeting with the chairman on june 12th. And i think its probably going to