Revealing the britishborn attacker had been investigated before for ties to violent extremism. Nic robertson has more on his ties to isis. Reporter the News Agency Associated with isis says they claim him as one of their soldiers. They did exactly the same with the attacker in nice last year, the two attacks very similar. What isis on this News Organization is saying is that this has been done in response to their calls for attacks on the coalition. So this is very much in keeping with what weve seen isis do before, claiming him as one of their soldiers. What we learned from the authorities here, british born, Prime Minister theresa may saying British Intelligence services, mi5 investigated him being periphery to another incident several years ago. They decided he wasnt relevant going forward, not under recent or current investigation, but what police say theyre doing now is looking at his motivation, looking at his preparations and looking at his associates, the point of his associate
Spumoni and dirt. You put caustic chemicals and then it separates out something called alumina. And if you dry alumina out and take it to your metal processing plant, your smelters, you process that dry alumina powder into liquid aluminum. And the process by which you get that powdered alumina into liquid aluminum is the smelting process and in big aluminum smelters its one of the things we humans have created to most closely approximate the pits of hell on earth. The pictures from aluminum smelters, especially big aluminum smelters, its basically scifi. Hard only the this is on the surface of the planet. When the soviet union collapsed and its stateowned giant aluminum smelters were becoming private property, private businesses, that heavy russian industry like a lot of other Russian Industries at the time turned into full scale murderous gang warfare. As various thugs and connected gangsters fought it out in many cases literally for control of what they knew would be a multibillion d
Jon john roberts his life for us in the north lawn. Good morning to you. The white house is working very hard to get something in place. Im told that today is a very important day. Theyve made some changes could attract a lot of attention. First of all, lets look at one of the big additions. A 45 billion over ten years was wanted for opioid addiction treatment. Another change would allow Health Savings accounts to be used to pay for premiums per this could bring senators like ted cruz, mike lee, and ron johnson on board and the president in the white house making the point that this is not cutting medicaid, it is cutting the growth of medicaid. Its an argument that the Bush Administration tried very hard to make back in the day. People always look at that and say those are not cuts to growth, thats cuts to cuts. Appearing with the chicago cubs yesterday, the president said that he thought he might be able to bring on the toughest as editors, rand paul of kentucky, Susan Collins of main
Vladimir putin specific instructions defeat Hillary Clinton and help donald trump win the white house. It would be another two months before the public would learn about russias role and even longer until americans would be told about the kremlins exact goal. Lets get more on what President Trump is saying about all this as well as the russian reaction. Cnn correspondent athena jones outside the white house, also with us cnn contributor and cnns former Moscow Bureau chief Jill Dougherty joining us. Athena, is the president now saying he does believe definitively that russia hacked the election . Hi, ana. Well, it certainly sounds as though the president now agrees with u. S. Intelligence agencies who concluded months ago that russia meddled in the 2016 election. He still hasnt given a definitive denunciation or a definitive stand alone statement about that issue. But listen to what he told fox news. Well, i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time be
Meanwhile, the Health Care Showdown continues. A second attempt at the republican bill. Just one senator away from falling flat. And swallowed by the earth. Homes and a boat destroyed in florida as a massive sinkhole continues to grow. We begin this hour in new jersey, where President Trump is spending this saturday on the golf course. Not playing a round, but rather, watching the u. S. Womens open at his club in bedminster. The president returning from paris late yesterday and facing new questions about that meeting last june at trump tower. A meeting we now know included not only a russian attorney but also a russian american lobbyist who is also a former soviet counterintelligence sergeant. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is in piscataway, new jersey. What has the white house been saying about this today . Reporter good to be with you. The white house is really not saying a lot about the specific new details that have been coming out, but there are some actions that relate to all of this. Today