Arthel and we begin with President Trump back on american soil after spending bastille day in paris on his third overseas trip. The president hitting the links today not to play a round himself, but to watch the womens u. S. Open taking place at Trump National golf club in bedminster, new jersey, as new details emerge about his sons meeting during last years president ial campaign with a russian lawyer. Kevin corke is live from new jersey near the president s golf course. Hello, kevin, nice to see you. Reporter you too. Great to be with you, as always. Interesting, were a little bit away from the actual golf course, but clearly the white house is watching very carefully how this weekend playing out. Sort of a twopronged approach, if you will, to this ongoing controversy about russia. On the other hand, they want to keep the president on message, talking about his agenda. On the other hand, theyre trying to beef up the staff so they can deal with the ongoing russia investigation. We cer
Cooperating. Now, according to the New York Times, papadopoulos was apparently drinking with a top australian diplomat back in may of 2016 and he told that diplomat that russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. Two months later when the dnc emails were leaked, australian officials told u. S. Officials about that conversation with papadopoulos. Now this news indicates that additional intelligence separate from that dossier raised concerns among security officials. This hour, the white house is responding. The president s lawyer telling cnn quote, out of respect for the president ial counsel as his process we are not commendeding on matters such as this. We are continuing to fully cooperate with the special counsel in order to help complete the inquiry expeditiously. Joining us editor for the New York Times. He is one of the journalists behind this breaking news, thank you for joining us. I know some republicans youve been reporting as well as the president claimed the dossier is th
The National Weather service says large areas of south texas may be uninhabitable for weeks or even months. The Texas Governor is already asking for the state to be declared a major disaster area to trigger additional help from the federal government. As the First National disaster on his watch is about to hit a natural disaster, President Trump is over at camp david. The white house says hes been actively engaged with emergency officials and is planning to travel to texas early next week. We are also just learning that the president assigned and directed following up officially on his ban on transgender troops that he announced in a tweet last month. This hour ill speak live with the head of the federal Emergency Management agency, brock long. There you see him. And our correspondents, specialists and other guests are standing by as we cover this breaking story. First, lets go to cnns Martin Savage. Hes right in the heart of things in Corpus Christi. Martin, youre in the danger zone.
Works . Dinner date. On the same day that former Foreign Policy adviser George Papadopoulos was interviewed by the fbi, President Trump called then fbi director james comey and invited him to dinner where he demanded a loyalty pledge. How far along was comeys investigation . And putins puppet. Paul manafort who became Trump Campaign chairman allegedly took millions of dollars from the former ukrainian president who was a puppet of russias Vladimir Putin. Why did donald trump pick a Campaign Boss with russia connections . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Break news. A day of Stunning Development in the special counsels investigation into russias election meddling and possible collusion by trump associates. We over seen the first indictments as two former top Trump Campaign officials appeared in court today facing multiple criminal charges, and theres been a bombshell guilty plea from a third person in fbi records inunsold today. That undertheraid hear plea from a Trump Camp
Niger. You will hear what one soldier said he saw. Also cliff hanger as the Trump Administration releases files, one sentence oddly cut short after a question about harvey oswalds possible involvement with the cia. Who is holding the answer . All of that coming up, but questions being raised today. Serious questions about President Trump and the u. S. Justice department. Those questions surround an fbi inform and under a gag order and a congressional investigation. Sources tell us that President Trump let it be known that he wanted the Justice Department to make that gag order disappear. Something confirmed today by the white house adviser, kellyanne conway. It is not unusual for a president to weigh in. This president as you saw from everything from the jfk files to this particular Ongoing Investigation is for transparency. He believes as many others do, frankly, that the fbi informant should be free to say what he knows. Kellyanne conway interviewed on the new day earlier today. The