and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call 1-800-501-6000. for $34.90 more per month. (buzzer) olly. russia s attempts to infiltrate the 2016 election might not be the only focus for robert mueller. the new york times is repo reporting that the special counsel is also looking into the emirates and possible influence into gaining access into the trump white house. how that influence may have shaped white house policy in the mideast. joining me now, senior analyst
another troubling development. jen, i mean, the idea that america was getting jared kushner and ivanka trump along with president trump seems to be, at least in part, a package deal of ethics questions and security clearance hurdles. that s true. you never want to hire someone you can t fire, which is why there s nepotism laws, in part. but the other fact that hasn t been out there that much is that when you fill out your security clearance forms, typically, your spouse s contacts and financial ties are taken into account. we don t know what her security clearance is, exactly what the status is, but there s no doubt that she would be, her security clearance would probably be impacted with everything happening with jared, as well. and if you look at this circumstance, it s actually pretty surprising, reading this story, that she hasn t been pulled into some of the repo reporting. she s been pretty low key as it relates to the mueller investigation. doesn t mean she s done anything w
american politics and republicans are somewhat wary of him tonight. texting me and telling me that. no sign he is leaving the white house at all, but there is a sign that he knows being out front on each and every issue is not going to be the way forward in the coming weeks. ever strike you this guy called the deputy president probably arguably the closest man to the leader of the free world. we never heard his voice. he does avoid interviews. he has not done a sit down. you are right. most people do not know his voice. he likes it that way. he is someone who doesn t mind throughout the course of my repo reporting, the intrigue. he likes being in the middle of power. let me run one more scenario by you. the president of the united
as chelsea manning was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for giving the documents to wikileaks. just before leaving office president obama ordered manning to be released in may of this year. the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers have received. reporter: but there s been no presidential reprieve for edward sn snowden, the form earp nsa contractor whose 2013 revelation of secret government surveillance programs left him fleeing charges of espionage. this guy is a bad guy and, you know, there is still a thing called execution. reporter: and accepting asylum in, of all places, russia. our anderson cooper repo reporting. i want to bring in now cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources brian. leaks have revealed some very important developments in our history and have really been news. how difficult is it for the
everything is. if they wait much longer assad begins to move his stuff around and russians move theirs around and makes it more challenging to locate these targets and have that precision you want. it s a difficult proposition because we have seen this before, any military force, you can strike a building and have all the satellite imagery for days on end and you may not know exactly who s inside, they don t want to strike the russians. barbara starr, thank you, we ll check back with you in the next two hours, this all folding along side china s visit to mar-a-lago. and it has been upstaged and jeff joins us with his repo reporting, have there been si t sightings of the president on mar-a-lago? he is booked this afternoon.