Could vote to make a change today. The latest is next. Good morning, it is sunday, june 28th, happy pride. The beard is growing. Im kendis gibson. And im cory coffin. Lets begin with the breaking news. Any reaction from the Trump Administration to the stunning New York Times report alleging russia offers bounties to afghanistan militants for killing u. S. Soldiers. For the latest, lets get to Josh Letterman at the white house. What is the response here from the administration to this overnight report . Reporter im going to have to put the camera away because there are issues right now with us and the Computer Systems are down. But we have some breaking news overnight from the dni john ratcliffe, the head of the National Intelligence office. Putting out a statement saying that he has confirmed that neither President Trump nor Vice President mike pence were briefed on this alleged intelligence about russia putting a bounty on the lives of u. S. Troops and other Coalition Forces in afghan
Union reopens, its now considering blocking americans from entering because of the continuing spike of coronavirus cases here in the United States. Lets begin our coverage this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Hes traveling with the president in arizona right now. Jim, testing remains a huge issue months into this pandemic. And the president is creating a lot of confusion. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump is on his way to another event with supporters after visiting his border wall earlier today, the president is in damage control mode today trying to clean up his comment that he told Administration Officials to slow down testing for the coronavirus. First, aides to the president said he was just joking about that. Then the president contradicted his own aides by saying he doesnt kid. Even after more than 120,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the u. S. , the president and his top aides are having a tough time explaining whether mr. Trump is just kid
Wests interest to see them end up at the top of the heap. Rose and then we turn to the story of the chinese army spying on the American Government and American Companies with david sanger of the New York Times, dune lawrence and Michael Riley of bloomberghas been off to the side as something of an annoyance. Im hearing this has gotten so big its moving to the center of the relationship and it risks the rest of the relationship. I think the next thing youre going to see the president sending some kind of envoy to beijing to make that point. Rose the conflict in syria and spying on the United States by the chinese army when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin tonight with a look at the crises in syria. Nearly 70,000 people have died in one of the most deadly civil wars in recent history. Two years in and the community has debated how to intervene. The United States has given nearly 400 million in
Rose we begin tonight with a look at the crises in syria. Nearly 70,000 people have died in one of the most deadly civil wars in recent history. Two years in and the community has debated how to intervene. The United States has given nearly 400 million in humanitarian aid. Hes remained fragmented and disorganized. As the violence skates the United States has increasing efforts to arm the groups. Joining me is Michael Gordon the chief military correspondent for the New York Times. Im please to do have him on this program. Welcome. Nice to be here. Much to talk about. Let me begin with syria. We all know from congressional testimony from leon panetta the former sect of defense and others that there was a recommendation from leon panetta and from David Petraeus at ci and from Hillary Clinton at state to do something. So what happened, i believe, and i did a lot of reporting on it. And actually it was an article that i worked on with mark rangler that was the basis of the question that eli
Rose welcome to the program. Tonight Michael Gordon chief military correspondent of the New York Times on syria and whether the president may be reconsidering the use of american weapons supplied to the rebels. The concern president obama had lying weapons would in effect be involved in a proxy war supported by iran and russia. The other side of the debate is nothing else is working and we need to create pressure on assad and build relationship with people inside syria who might take over one day. Another factor is there are rebels, alqaeda affiliated rebels the United States and the west doesnt support. And i dont think its in the wests interest to see them end up at the top of the heap. Rose and then we turn to the story of the chinese army spying on the American Government and American Companies with david sanger of the New York Times, dune lawrence and Michael Riley of Bloomberg Businessweek. The cyber has been off to the side as something of an annoyance. Im hearing this has gotte