5:30 a.m. on the east coast. we want to welcome viewers back in the united states and around the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. good to have you with us. i am george howell in hasn t. i am hannah vaughan jones in london. taking you through the headlines we are following this hour. president trump suggested conversations with james comey may have been recorded, tweet seen as a threat warning him. comey told him three times he was not under investigation by the fbi. tens of thousands of computers targeted in a global cyber attack. russia, ukraine and taiwan hit hardest. hackers exploited a weakness in windows software, locking down all files until ransom was paid. there s no indication who is behind this security breach. airlines are bracing for new rules on u.s. downed flights
and does the president have a recording device in the oval office or elsewhere recording conversations. the white house would not talk about that, but going forward. this issue of firing james comey sometime eeed the legislative agenda, they ll be traveling abroad next week, first foreign trip of the presidency. hoping that gets the president back on track. jeff zeleny, cnn. let s get some perspective what s happening with sylvia better elly live from london. always a pleasure to have you. let s talk about the threat made on twitter by the president of the united states to the fbi director, former fbi director, james comey. first of all, what does it say about mr. trump putting that on record on twitter? what about the people around him who are supposed to be his advisers? first of all, we are talking about a threat, but depends who you ask if it is a threat.
around the world that happening on this. we just had a segment about the pope s travel to portugal. he went to egypt on april 208 th and 29th and had a two-day conference with the grantee mom there and they came out with a tremendous statement in favor of human rights. the greatest authority in sunni islam, the islamic pope, called for the respect for people to be able to change religions. kelly: thank you for letting it be known. we appreciate your insights on this difficult problem that the president will be dealing with as well. thank you so much. thank you to you. julie: are the chilly relations with north korea find out. why a diplomat says the regime might actually be open to negotiations with the us. president trump tweeting out a message to former fbi director james comey, but wasn t a threat the president has nothing former to add.
because you start off at such a disadvantage. so everyone was thinking, they should have won the election. this was an excuse for having lost an election. joining me now, former white house council to president nixon, john dean, welcome. thank you. you are someone who knows a thing or two about tapes in the white house. what do you make of this threat? in this day and age, i m sure it s not a tape. i m sure he s referring to a listening device. today it would be digital and not a magnetic tape. so just to eliminate that technical problem. but did he record or did someone record? no idea. but today it would be very easy. he could have a smartphone in his pocket and probably pick up a room conversation with some ease. so i don t think comey would do that. that s certainly contrary to all the fbi protocols. so that s just not going to happen. but what i suspect comey did is
and was instructed not to say anything beyond what was in the tweet. the interesting thing was him trying to convince people it wasn t a threat. it was just helpful advice to a departing employee, you know? a little legal advice for mr. comey. obviously, it was a threat. and you know, the problem is not with the spokespeople, but they re in a constant game of twister, trying to contort themselves to explain the latest tweet or comment. he sent the vice president out there to tell a story and cut him off at the knees the next day himself. so if donald trump has communications issues, he should start by looking in the mirror. threw the whole white house under the bus, as chris cillizza wrote so well on cnn.com. let s talk about you and your axe files special. you ask california governor enginejerry brown about the sto the week, of the year, the james comey firing. here s part of your