after that 2017 in an effort to, this is a quote, hit americans against americans. i sat in a closed sessio briefing probably two months ago about charlottesville with the director of the fbi, amongst others, and asked if russian intermeddling had to do with the flames happened in charlottesville. i was told, yes, it did. i asked is this information classified? they said, no, it s not. cnn white house report sarah westwood is live from new jersey. any reaction from that from the president, sarah? reporter: president trump has not wait much beyond the tweet yesterday he sent condemning racism and perhaps in an attempt both to pay tribute to the pain the charlottesville inflicted on the nation last year and to make clear his position on the white nationalist gathering today before they get under way. ivanka trump, the president s daughter, is also speaking out to mark the one-year anniversary of charlottesville and she
season, a fact that hit americans in puerto rico the hardest. there also remains that crisis on our southern border, a crisis of the administration s own making. and the migrant families that still remain separated tonight. the latest numbers as we have them as reported by the new york times. administration officials told reporters that the government had reunited 57 of the 103 migrant children under the age of 5. complying with a judicial order. the other 46 were deemed ineligible for a variety of reasons. some of their parents have been accused of crimes. one parent had a communicable disease. in a dozen cases, the parents had been deported already without their children, making their reunification more challenging. just some of what took place in just the space of this past week. and that is our broadcast on a friday night. and for this week. thank you so very much for being
units of the am maine intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. they created fictitious online personas including d.c. leaks and guccifer 2.0. and they used those personas to release information including e-mails and thousands of stolen documents beginning in june 2016. the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy. there s no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. further on that point, rosenstein added no americans were charged in the indictment and said it does not allege that election results were altered. he also said the investigation continues. we learn today rosenstein briefed the president, told him this was coming before the president left on his overseas trip.
putin without americans and without american interpreters with him. he s done that a couple of times already. we don t know whether we ll ever know exactly what is said in that room. but if the president believes that russia could in fact in some fashion shape or influence the investigation against him, i don t know that he wouldn t raise it with putin. josh, do you know of another president in our country in the modern era who would go through with such a meeting? or let me take jeremy bash s example. wouldn t most presidents go in and slap down a document on the table and say you need to answer for this? yeah, i think that s certainly the case under almost any conceivable scenario. but also under a conceivable scenario there wouldn t be live accusations the president himself was mixed up right in the center of this entire effort. that s what s causing the
mueller and his team actually following a textbook investigation in the larger cases. and again, i agree with mimi that this indictment virtually screams that, folks, the next thing that s coming is indictments of anybody who in america who are americans and participated in this scheme with russia to undermine our election. so mimi, one thing you and i talk about a lot on this broadcast is the chance and timing of this potential mueller/trump sit-down. did anything about that in your view change in this document today? well, yes, because now we know a very important fact. everyone had always taken notice of trump s speech back during the campaign where he said, russia, if you re listening everyone would appreciate it if you released hillary clinton s e-mails. and we now know from this