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And christi paul. Good morning to you. We start this morning with what could ab crucial week in the russia investigation. Special counselor Robert Muellers team to interview trumps team. Muellers team is defending itself against new attacks. For members of the trump Transition Team. Republican lawmakers and the conservative media. At issue here, tens of thousands of emails sent by the members of the Transition Team. Team lawyers say mueller got those emails illegally and argue the documents should have been protected. But the special counsels office says its followed the proper legal channels and legal experts say the emails are fair game because they were sent from government account. We are covering this story from all angles with our team of kornts and analysts. To start with cnns dan live in washington. Dan, obviously, what we are hearing this morning could change what we see happening with this meeting later this week when the president s lawyers talk to muellers team . Reporter y
Details. Whats going on . Weve never heard publicly from north korea that it was willing to go forward with the talks after the south koreans extended an offer from kim jongun to President Trump to meet and President Trump accepted. Weve been waiting to hear something. Now cnn that is learned multiple officials tell myself and cnn that the u. S. And north korea have been meeting. This is being run by the cia, director mike pompeii i dont, the lowerlevels if ishil have been speaking on the moment, even met in a third country, initially starting to prepare with these talks, starting with nailing down a location. Thenoicance have ask for pong yang, but the capital of mongolia has been raised, and i think this shows the involvement of mike pompemomenpompeimoment. I think as he comes on as secretary the state, well hear more about his roles. This is whether many, when the talks were initially agreed to by the president , expected would have happened and should have happened before there was