for this sort of thing. richard, does this new reporting shed any new light on the papadopoulos plea deal? well, i think thehe s cooperating with robert mueller and i think he has a lot to say. it s quite clear that he was making contacts with foreign diplomats and that he was making contacts with a russian agent in lond london. the so-called professor and he is exactly the type of person who is an easy mark for the russians. somebody who s a climber who wants to you know, wiggle his way into positions of power at a young age. somewhat insecure, that s exactly the type of person the russian agents are looking for to take advantage of and that appears to be b what they did. and the trump campaign appears to have been more than willing to take him up on these
perhaps here referencing how these protests began. that they began with an economic thrust. complaints about rising inflation, unemployment. he is saying that the government must do more to tackle these issues, but at the same time, he says that anyone trying to damage the government through these protests must be identify immediately. there is tho doubt that a government is taking these protests in a very, very concerned light. nic robertson, london. thank you so much. i want to discuss the developing situation there in iran. joining us now, republican congressman will herd of texas, a member of the house intelligence committee and a former undercover cia officer. thank you so much, congressman, for spend iing part of your wee and especially this holiday weekend to discuss this with us. i want to read more from president trump s warning to iran. quote, from his tweet, many reports of peaceful protests by iranian citizens, fed up with the regime s corruption and its squandering o f t
she points to israel as a foreign policy panelist at the republican national convention. in a meeting with israeli settlers around inauguration day. seen here in video obtained by the jerusalem post. and while she says papadopoulos communicated with them later in the campaign, he never discussed russia with them. why do you think the white house was so quick to come out and call him a coffee boy or low level volunteer? i think they wanted to disassociate from the first person who decided to actively cooperate with the government. i suppose this can be right threatening for some people. she says she was interview ued by the fbi in october. and that a key focus was on london based professor, joseph mi fsu d, pechted of being a link. a lot of discussion. he allegedly told papadopoulos during the campaign that the russians had dirt on
he s done every other time he s had a good presidential moment and he reverts to campaign mode because i think when he s fighting like this, this is when he s comfortable. the aids around him are trying to channel this as best they can. if you re steve bannon and steven miller, it s towards a nationalist agenda. but they are not asking him to stop or slow down. you can t make him stop. he s the president and he s a 70-year-old man that doesn t take advice. they have encouraged him to stop tweeting. we saw this during the campaign. they tried to keep him busy. there was a story about keeping him busy because he doesn t have time to tweet. we re talking about the president of the united states. look at how he reacted to manchester and london. he s on his foreign trip. he s not tweeting. he s busy. he has a very trumpy, but eloquent statement about evil losers in life. totally focused on what happened and not himself. london, all about himself. there s a lot of discussion
khan on twitter for the london attack. we re finding more about the men behind the attack. two of the three attackers publicly identified. we know police decided to back off an investigation of one of the attackers back in 2015. cnn samuel berk live at scotland yard in london. good morning, samuel. good morning, david and chris teach. we ve just had confirmation 2015 investigation into one of the attackers was actually downgraded by uk authorities. let s just put up the photos of the two attackers naemd publicly. on the right-hand side rachid redouane, 30, claim to be of moroccan originalon. on the left khuram shazad butt british citizen born in pakistan. that was the man on the radar of the police and equivalent of fbi