Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat from a foreign adversary, attack, you need the United States to speaker with one voice and that voice usually comes from the president of the United States, to say, this is who we are, this is what our values are. This is important when there is misinformation, part of the attack is a misinformation campaign. The president , consciously or not, is actually doing putins work for him. He is echoing and amplifying divisive messages putin is hoping to sow and delegitimizing rhetoric. So i think that part of fight willing back is for these intel chiefs is to make this public statement. Phil, you worked for the cia and fbi in your long career. Does it really matter whether or
not the president is echoing what the National Security apparatus is saying as long as you have chris wray, dni coats, nielsen, all pointing at russia, saying were aware of this, working on this, doing everything we can to make sure the sanctity of the voting process remains. Timeout, anderson. 95 of the americans couldnt name one of the people who spoke today. Cant name the National Security advisor and cant name the cabinet members. They can name the president of the United States and he has at least two major responsibilities here well beyond the intel that people like me who used to be on the inside would ask him to do. Number one, what is the message to vladamir putin after we see this happening only a week after helsinki, the president told vladamir putin why dont you visit the white house. I can tell you the consequences on vladamir putin are nothing. If the russians continue to this, the answer to trump is, sure, ill go visit the white house and we dont have to talk about it. One final point and more significant, the domestic message the president has to send, in new york you live in new york, anderson, time and time again they say the new York Police Department and fbi have secret work to do. If you see something say something. The governor and mayor had a message to the people. And the facebook intervention they talked about this week, what has the president said to the American People and who is the messenger to the American People. I dont see one, anderson. If this were so important, should the president have been there or echoed this at least tonight saying, you know, ive i totally agree with what my intelligence chiefs said and as opposed to talking about it as a hoax . Of course, anderson but it is clear the president does not agree with what the intelligence chiefs are saying. You saw the clip a few moments ago he called this a hoax and they are saying this is a major
danger to the United States. One of the most revealing lines is when john bolton said, the president has made very clear what his priorities are. By that, i think bolton meant he has a priority focusing on russia. In fact, the president has made very clear his priority is not to focus on the russian threat, he only views this through his prism of his own political selfinterest. He doesnt care about getting to the root of the russian interference in the 2016 election or in the future, all he cares about is saving his own political skin, which is why he and other senior officials have now taken to referring to the Mueller Probe as a rigged witch hunt delegitimizing the investigation and essentially doing vladamir putins work for him. I talked to Michael Hayden and director clapper, all saying having the president be the one on top of all his National Security apparatus directing all of their efforts. We heard from each of these people individually. Chris wray testified in congress what the fbi is doing to try to
counterrussia in the upcoming election and dni coats and others express concerns. People who worked in Intelligence Agencies and the fbi all say it is critical for the president to be the one setting the agenda and giving it all a sense of urgency and coordination. Do you agree with that . Absolutely. One of the things after 9 11, in light of the 9 11 commissions recommendations was to break down barriers in terms of sharing intelligence, create the office of the director of National Intelligence in order to bring all these different perspectives these agencies have so that good policy can be made. That is made at the top by the president of the United States. Many things, covert actions abroad, have to be authorized by him in writing with a finding its important to National Security. So, in many ways, these Agencies Cannot Act effectively without him getting on board and without him creating a coordinated strategy and tell them exactly what he wants them to do. Did it jump out to you that hes not fully aware what happened at the summit or talk about it . Not understanding or having been reliably been briefed by the president exactly what he said to vladamir putin, i find that surprising. It is. Let me make this real to you. If there is a conversation between the president and putin about Election Interference and putin makes specific representations about what he will or will not do. Lets take it further, say theres a conversation about syria and russian engagement in syria and putin makes representations to the president. Who will verify what putin says to the president . The director of the National Intelligence. The dni coming out of helsinki should be saying, putin said this, mr. President and this is what putin said after speaking about russian interference. Instead, what he told us, you just reported to us he doesnt know what happened. I have spoken quite a bit about what happened in helsinki, what do you think about what dni coats said . Its deeply disturbing. This is a president accused very credibly of colluding with russia in 2016. Evidence is piling up including the recent cnn report Michael Cohen is prepared to testify donald trump knew in advance about the meeting between the russians and the Trump Campaign. You have a president suspected of working with russia to affect american democracy. The same president is in an off the record meeting with the russian president where nobody including the National Security knows what happened. This is not diplomacy as usual,
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too. These are the details prosecutors are putting out for the jury. As much as the defense shows the bad guy her exact quote was he approved every penny of everything we paid. Not only that, the bookkeeper describes in details how manafort lied to the banks. Prosecutors show a side by side of documents. One where the book keeper told one bank that manaforts company lost more than 1 million in 2016. Manafort, he sent the same person at that same bank a different Financial Statement saying his Company Actually made 3 million by around the same time period. Prosecutors are priming this jury with a lot of evidence for charges to show he committed tax fraud, too. And saying now gates will testify. They floated will he or wont they, they werent sure. They finally said they will call gates, today or tomorrow. And will manafort testify . Thats something the judge
brought up. They want to bring in evidence manafort was ever audited by the irs. The judge said, if you want that evidence or testimony to come in, it would be much better if Paul Manafort testifies, the next big question. Appreciate it. Still Breaking News what that russian woman arrested for conspiracy and acting as a russian agent, forever she acted as charged and some info on her skillset with politician, a hint, she wasnt exactly subtle. What are you learning . She wasnt exactly subtle. She is innocent until Proven Guilty but an alleged russian
spy. She didnt use the kind of Spy Technology we would expect, communicating on twitter and whatsup, with those her own age and older men. She was so flirtatious, men walked away wondering what her ulterior motive was, what she wanted from them. This gives you the various ways moscow runs its influence operation, thats what experts said when i asked about her spy tactics. Look, vladamir putin has a number of seasoned operatives he can plant in the u. S. To run operations for him. He also will tap people like maria butina through other people he knows to gain information and access in the u. S. Thats what prosecutors say is going on in this case, anderson. Did she talk about ties to russian intelligence at any point . She did. This is one of the allegations that has come out against her from some of her classmates who wish to remain anonymous, there were a Couple Instances she
actually was intoxicated according to sources who were familiar with this and talked about her ties to the russian government and talked about her ties to russian intelligence and talked about how she ran a Gun Rights Group from moscow and sort of had the buyin to russian intelligence. This was so alarming to some people she said it in front of, on two separate instances, her classmates reported it to Law Enforcement. What does her lawyer say . He says she was completely innocent, an American University student, not a spy. Shes pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy as well as acting as a Foreign Agent in the u. S. But he also said in other interviews he believes sexism and this antirussian sentiment given the Political Climate now has tainted the case against her. He hasnt fully made these arguments in court but shes back in september and we will
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