Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. No evidence that theyre doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. That was very clear. And they laid o
This potential gamechanger in the norths standoff. U. S. Intelligence sources telling cnn that they believe north korea has now produced nuclearized miniaturized Nuclear Warhead that can fit inside of its missiles. Essentially, that means this is a nuke small enough to be strapped to an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Lets go straight to the region, to will ripley who has reported extensively from within north korea. Will ripley, i realize it is in the middle of the night where you are but as people are beginning to wake up, what do you anticipate regional reaction will be . Reporter well certainly here in china, they are going to call for calm as they always do whenever there is any provocation from north korea or any word of a Major Development like this. Keep in mind, north korea has been claiming that they had a miniaturized Nuclear Warhead since last march. They even put out a photo of their leader, kim jong un, standing in front of this metall metallic orb and there was so mu
President trumps first formal meeting with Vladimir Putin at the g20 summit. It takes place with protesters marching, allies seeking reassurance, north korea testing missiles, china looking to fill the vacuum and so much more including now the breaking news. Cnn has learned that even with all the attention, the reporting, the hearings, the fbi probe, intelligence officials are concerned that russian has accelerated its spying given the Intelligence Community which the president slighted today even more to do. More on putin, the summit, the president s resistance, all of it tonight. First, though, cnn justice correspondent pamela brown on the stepped up spying. Pamela, what have you learned . We learned, john, russian spies are ramping up their intelligencegathering efforts in the United States, this is according to current and former u. S. Intelligence officials who say they noticed this increase since the election. So it appears, john, the russians have not been slowed by retaliatory
Warhead that can fit in a missile. President trump responding by threatening kim jongun with quote fire and fury like the world has never seen. So the president are President Trump vows of fire and fury reckless and will they calm a situation that threatens to get more dangerous by the hour. Lets talk about it now with alexandra field. Hello to you. President trump warned of the fire and fury if they continue to make threats. Just hours later, north korea what is the reaction there . That was one threat in a baa rectangle of threats. Another threat that threatened to turn the u. S. Mainland into a theater of nuclear war. And it was rather specific. Potentially warning they could use their medium and longrange missiles to strike guam. A home for u. S. Forces, a home for the b1b bombers that have been flying over the Korean Peninsula. And when asked about the latest comments, the latest threats from north korea and the response was this, that the words coming from state news and the peop
Okay. So the first question next talks. Theres no agreed next meeting between the president s. There are agreed subsequent followup meetings between various workinglevel groups at the state department. We agreed to set up a workinglevel group to begin to explore this Framework Agreement around the cyber issue, and this issue of noninterference. So those will be ongoing with various staff levels. Whos leading that . Is that rob joyce on the u. S. Side . It will be out of the state department and the National Security advisers office. As to the nature of the 2 hours and 15 minutes, first, let me characterize the the meeting was very constructive. The two leaders, i would say, connected very quickly. There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. I think, again and i think the positive thing i observed, and ive had many, many meetings with president putin before, is there was not a lot of relitigating of the past. I think both of the leaders feel like theres a lot of things in