The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. Okay. The tweets that hes been doing brooke on mueller, on the witchhunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. This crossed the line. Specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. The president saying its politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u. S. Political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. What is the trump Tower Meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didnt actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. I would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. And certainly in the view of robert mueller, colluding, which it has been called in the press, is actually conspiracy, and mueller has already defined that activity as being illegal. Its hes indicted about a dozen people for violation of 18 u. S. Codes, section 371, which is conspiracy against the united states. And anyone who participated in that meeting, whether they succeeded in getting information or not, is in jeopardy of being indicted for conspiracy. Conspiracy is not dependent on success. Its simply an agreement. Once that agreement is made, if its illegal, and anyone any part of that conspiracy, any individual takes any steps to
further it, then they can all be charged with conspiracy regardless of whether it was successful. Peter, what difference legally speaking would it make if mueller can prove that trump actually knew about this trump Tower Meeting beforehand . Well, it puts the president obviously in jeopardy as well. You know, i dont think its going to be all that difficult to establish that. I mean, the trump Tower Meeting was on the 9th of june, as i recall. Two days before that, he had made a Speech Saying that he was going to have very interesting information about Hillary Clinton. On Hillary Clinton. He was going to be announcing in a short period of time, in a matter of days. Which he never followed through on, because he didnt get it. He never followed through on it. Right. Very strong circumstantial evidence that he was aware of that meeting before the hand and what the purpose of that meeting was. Also just on the hypocrisy
front, dana, not only does the president tweet out essentially no bigs, we got no dirt and by the way there was nothing wrong about doing that, every politician does it he then tweeted Hillary Clinton and her team 100 colluded with the russians. So did adam schiff. Essentially he is saying when hillary wanted dirt it was a total crime. Let me point out the obvious, there was no Investigation Pointing at Hillary Clinton and her colluding with the russians. Secondly, you cannot have it both ways. No. You are exactly right. But thats following a logical stream there of argument, brooke. And thats not the point that the president is trying to make here. Thats not the goal, i should say, here. The goal is to just throw things out there that confuse the
situation, that confuse the investigation in the publics mind. And thats it. I mean thats the goal, which is what keeps us so busy doing what you just did, doing the yeah, but, and the fact check. Its important. But for the president , when he has the echo chamber on another Cable News Network and in talk radio and on conservative website, thats his goal. Unfortunately, for the truth and the facts, he is successful on just stirring up mud in the waters so that you cant really see whats really in there. How about can you just say that go ahead, peter. Bob mueller is not going to be confused by that. Hes not going to be distracted by it. No. So he is going to speak much more loudly by way of indictments. And i would suspect that individuals who participated in that trump Tower Meeting will be there will be charges
brought related to that meeting. So this yeah but hillary did it too is not going to get mueller off the track. How about, peter, just one more to you. One of the key witnesses at the center of that meeting and so many others was this woman, hope hicks, who was just getting on Board Air Force one over the weekend which has a lot of people scratching their heads. You know, she doesnt work there anywhere. Is the president at risk of Witness Tampering with her here . You know, im sure her lawyer would have preferred her not to have that contact. But my guess is that hope hicks has been interviewed. I know shes been interviewed on the hill. And i strongly suspect and by mutualer. That mueller has already interviewed her. Yes. So he may feel ultimately that her testimony is locked in. Okay. Its going to be very hard at this point for her to change her
view of what the events were. She testified under oath in the grand jury. She is sort of locked into her story now. All right, dana and peter, i appreciate both of you so very much for that. Come up next, Breaking News in the trial of former Trump Campaign manager paul manafort. The prosecution star witness, rick gates, is expected to flip and reveal what he knows. We will have a live report from the federal courthouse coming up next. Also ahead, taking sides. Is First Lady Melania Trump supporting lebron james over her own husband . What were learning about melanias very interesting comments appearing to contradict the president. And cnn goes inside the Worlds Largest motorcycle gathering, sturgis, South Dakotaa where some bikers are not shy, debating politics, and sharing their thoughts about this president. Are you a fan of the president . Do you think he is doing a good job . He is doing a lot better unanimous what obama did. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . The show stopper. He is manaforts former deputy at the Trump Campaign. He is awaiting his own sentence after pleading guilty to making false statements and conspiracy to defraud the united states. Plus he is cooperating with prosecutors as part of a plea deal. Simone is following this story for us from washington. Lets start with the bookkeeper who has been testifying. Tell me about the bookkeeper and any connection to gates. She is under crossexamination. The defense is questioning her. We dont have exact details yet but its clear they are going to paint her as someone who may have been been confused or uncertain. I think one of the thing that the defense may try to do is ask her why She Didnt Report she is alleging all sorts of things that manafort made her do. Why didnt she report to it anyone. The other thing, they are going to question her immunity deal, whether or not she is testifying, whether or not she is giving up this information because she herself is afraid
that she is going to be prosecuted. Those are typical Defense Things that attorneys would ask in these kinds of cases. The other thing is who is going to testify after her . We dont know yet. We thought maybe there would be fbi agents that would come in this afternoon and testify after her. That is not the case now we are told. But when does rick gates come in . We still dont know. It could be like you said, this afternoon. Or it could be tomorrow. One of the things that i think is important this the gates testimony we are going is learn some details about his cooperation. We may even get to see documents that he signed with the special counsels office in this Cooperation Agreement which will give us some perhaps maybe eyes into what he has been doing these last months with the special counsel. Obviously he is a big Witness For The Prosecution, but i think even a bigger witness for the defense. Because as you know, hes been sort of portrayed as the mastermind behind this. I mean, rick gates is important as a key Witness For The Prosecution but hes not their
only witness. They have all of this other evidence including this bookkeeper and other book coopers and accountants who are going to testify. But rick gates really is an important Witness For The Prosecution. But probably more important for the defense. We will be following it and talking with you all week. Thank you for the update on what is happening in alexandria. Coming up next here a growing trend. Members of president trumps inner circle, including family and top officials publicly disagree it was the president on a number of issues. The latest, his own wife. If first lady, melania, praising lebron james while her husband lets just say, isnt. Whats behind this . We will take a deeper look, next. When i touch you like this its so hard to believe but its all coming back me. Baby, baby, baby. All you can eat is back, baby. Applebees. Sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. Stadium pa all military members stand and be recognized. Sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. No matter where or when you served, tmobile stands ready to serve you. Thats why were providing half off family lines to all military. Are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec®. Its starts working hard at hour one. And works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Alicewhich is Breast Canceratic that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking Prescription Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptorpositive her2 Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. Patients Taking Ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. Before Taking Ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become pregnant. Common side effects include low red blood cell and low platelet counts, infections, tiredness, nausea,
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the president says regardless whether it is true or not, regardless of whether its right or wrong. Now we are seeing several people close to the president seeming to distance themselves to some of what he said. Lets start with Melania Trump, the first lady who of course broke with the president on the issue of lebron james after the president criticized him in that tweet you just showed the first lady released this statement saying it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation. And she also said that she would be willing to visit Lebron Jamess school. We are still waiting to see if an invitation is forthcoming on that. But she is not alone, of course. There is also the president s daughter. Ivanka trump was recently asked if she agreed with her fathers use of the term enemy of the people to refer to journalists. Heres what she said. I am very vehemently against Family Separation and the separation of parents and children. I have some sensitivity around
why people had concerns and gripe especially when they sort of feel targeted. But no, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people. That was the president s daughter not only disagreeing with the term enemy of the people but also on the policy of Family Separations at the border. But she is not alone to disagree with the president s use of the term enemy of the people within the administration. The president s chief defender oftentimes Kellyanne Conway put it this way. I dont believe journalists are the enemy of the people. I think some journalists are enemy of the relevant and enemy of the news you can use. Kellyanne conway there of course. The white house is always spin doctor putting a little bit of spin on there beyond just saying that fake news that journalists are not the enemy of the people. That is not all. Sarah sanders, the White House Press secretary has stood by the president s terminology the enemy of the people. He was pressed just last week to
disavow that term. She refused to do that. That was in an interaction with jim acosta. But the president himself is sticking by this term enemy of the people. Yesterday he once again reiterated that and also called reporters disgusting. That was just of course the president s latest attack on the news media. Brooke. Jeremy, thank you. Lets go to the woman at cnn whose job it is to follow all things Melania Trump. She is kate bennett, our White House Reporter. Kate, jeremy laid out other members of the family or trumps inner orbit who have gone against the president on x, y, or did. Again to have his wife totally split with him over, over lebron james. Do you know, whats the thinking behind the first lady here . Well, i mean, i think this is a first lady who just expresses her opinion and expresses what shes feeling, whether it disagrees or agrees with her husband. She is going to say it. This wasnt just a minor correction, wasnt a Statement Issued by her office. I asked the question, and that was the answer. I think the difference here between the east wing and the west wing is that oftentimes the answer feels like, you had know, its come from the first lady. Its direct. Its truthful. And it doesnt mean to cause waves. Its not released to cause the waves. But by the nature of what shes revealing of course it does. We are all talking about it. Again, Melania Trump demonstrated several times she has an independent streak, whether thats going to the border to talk about the border crisis, whether thats Something Like drawing attention away by wearing the white hat or clapping back at Rudy Giuliani when he tried to put words in her mouth and said she believed her husband about the Stormy Daniels situation. Her spokeswoman says i dont think mrs. Trump has had a conversation with Rudy Giuliani about anything, actually. These are all steps that we are seeing the first lady sort of make her mark in a very
independent way, in a way that quite frankly can be very opposite of what her husband is saying or feeling. And she doesnt seem to mind. And he doesnt seem to mind. So, certainly, its a very different sort of first couple that we are witnessing here in this administration. Listen, i love a good independent streak. And a wife should not always have to agree with her husband, right . But it is it is of note. You just rattled off she went to Barbara Bushs funeral you can continue down the list of things where she has gone this way when her husband has gone the other. Im wondering what you think thats about. I honestly think its about the first lady in my opinion is one of the few people who doesnt react in response to something that the president does. So we see a lot of the president doing something and then people respond. Whether it is about the russia investigation or you know a policy issue. The first lady is not reacting necessarily to what the president did. In fact i think she is more
reacting to what lebron james did. He said i dont want to sit across from the president and talk about this. The first lady is saying in the effort of kids and education i will sit across the table from you. Uhhuh. I think its more her in the interest of pushing forward her agenda regard of what the president is thinking that motivates her. And thats also something that we are seeing in other flourishes of her personality. She is very mysterious, very private. So we have to look into these things and read into them a bit. But i truly think that was a response more to how lebron was responding even more so than how her husband was. Coming up next, two historic landmarks targeted with disgraceful acts of vandalism. Among them, where emmitt tills body was recovered. And it is known as the Worlds Largest gathering of bikers. Cnns bill weir goes inside to talk politics, president trump, and facts. Dont miss this. Behr presents ordinary versus overachiever. A lot of paints say they can do the job, but just one can behr through it all. Behr premium plus, a top rated interior paint at a great price. Family friendly, disaster proof. Find it exclusively at the home depot. Whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, inlaws were coming, a little bit of water, it really it rocked our world. I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. We called usaa. And they greeted me as they always do. Sergeant baker, how are you . They were on it. It was unbelievable. Having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa now thats a privilege. Were the bakers and were usaa members for life. Usaa. Get your insurance quote today. Ive been Making Blades here at gillette for 20 years. Theres a lot of innovation that goes into making americas 1 shave. Precision machinery and highquality materials from around the world. Nobody else even comes close. Now starting at 7. 99. Gillette. The best a man can get. There are land marks meant to remind the nation never to forget about the savagery of racism the horror of the holocaust and the heroes who emerged in the struggle against it. Now two of those historic landmarks have been vandalized. Romanian vandals sprayed antisem of the ethic graffiti on the home of elliot wisel. Police are investigating. They say they already have a list of suspects there. Here in the u. S. For the third time the memorial marking the spot where emmett tills body was pulled from the Mississippi River was defaced. Someone fired multiple shots into the sign, as you can see. And the prior vandalism incident
happened just over a month ago. Joshua due but a is with us. A cnn contributor and a adviser to president obama on faith and charity. I on the wad to have this conversation today because when i was read being the incidents, it is profoundly infuriating. Two men, two different parts of the world, but men that really stand for something. Yeah. My question to you is why do you think this is happening. First and foremost, brooke, thank for calling attention to this. Its absolutely disgusting. Disgusting is not even Strong Enough a word. For viewers who dont know, emmett till was a child a 14yearold who was tortured and brutally murdered in mississippi Down In The Delta for no crime at all. They said he whistled at a white woman which of course should not be a Death Sentence anyway. And even the woman has since said he didnt do anything at all. To shoot up a memorial to that little boy. And then elie wisel, a survivor
of genocide, someone who was at the forefront of making sure that incidents, genocides like the holocaust never happened again, to deface his home. It is not about the incidents. It is a broader crisis of hate. We have seen hate crimes increasing for four years in a row. A 60 increase in antisemitic ins tents from 2014 to 2017. This reached a crisis point and its time we take it seriously. I want to ask you a question on something else. It wont seem related but in the end we are going to come back around. I want to talk about lebron james. He opened i Promise School opened the last last week. To 240 atrisk third and fourth graders. Let me just the School Includes free uniforms, free tuition, free breakfast, lunch, and snacks, free bike and helmet, free transportation, access to a food pantry for
families, and guaranteed tuition to all graduates to the university of act ron. First of all, before we delve deeper on this, how great that . Amazing. He could be so much else with his money and his time. He has decided to pour into other people. Yeah. Don lemon goes and interviews lebron in cleveland, and they air, they reair the interview on friday night. And listen, i dont know if he was watching or not, but the president tweeted, lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. He made lebron look smart, which isnt easy to do. I like mike. All right . I want to point out don lemons response, who is the real dummy, a man who puts kids in school or one who puts kids in cages . Thats the response. What makes the president feel like he can doing this and specifically attacking levels of intelligence . Its absurd. Its like our parents told many
of us, when someone is bullying or attacking you it often says more about them than it says about you. This is coming from a place of weakness, insecurity, inferiority. The president is kt aing and behaving im not saying he is, but he is behaving like a small man who cant respond on substance so he responds with insults and attacks. Again it is a bigger problem because he is moving the boundaries of debate removing the guardrails telling americans you can say and do whatever is in your best interest. When he removes those guardrails its no wonder that our civility and our conversations have run into a ditch. Amen to that. Joshua due but a i appreciate it. We are getting Breaking News out of alexandria. We are getting Breaking News out of the criminal trial of the former Campaign Chairman paul manafort. Whats up . Its what we were just talking about moments ago. The big Witness For The Prosecution in the paul manafort
case is set to take the stand, rick gates, as you said, will be taking the stand sometime this afternoon. As once the prosecutors and the defense Team Finishes up with the accountant who is on the stand now, rick gates is expected to take the stand. This was announced in Court Moments ago. He will take the stand. He will begin his testimony. At the very least this afternoon. Where we will learn a lot about his cooperation. And really, for the first time hear from him since he started cooperating with the special counsels office. So you made a point a second ago when we were talking. I just want to unpack a little bit of what we could hear from rick gates. You were saying we may actually see as far as evidence any sort of documents, anything he has signed as far as Cooperation Deals and the like. Why is that important . Usually that is something that on direct testimony the prosecutors will go into great deal with. Really, its to tell the jury
what hes been doing, how his cooperation has been going, how hes been cooperating. They will probably limit it specifically to this case. But its really to sort of give him some credibility. And honestly, for the progs to be honest with the jury about what hes been doing. Also the documents that are usually associated with this kind of an agreement are submitted into evidence so that the jury could essentially review it. And then also the Defense Attorneys obviously are going to want to question him about his agreement. Because sometimes good Defense Attorneys like to use that as a way to say, well this is the reason why someone is cooperating. Look at this deal that they have given to him. And it goes to his credibility. His credibility is the big issue at this trial. And the prosecution is going to do everything you can, upt expect, to try and bolster his credible. And then the defense obviously will do everything they can the rip it apart. Also big for the defense here is they are trying to pin
everything, put everything on rick gates. He is going to be a big witness for them as well. All right. It happens this afternoon. We will be in contact over any and all headlines made from that federal krouts in alexandria. Shimon, thank you for now. Also, moments ago the president of iran responding to president trumps offer to hold talks this. As new u. S. Sanctions kick in today. Also ahead, what started as a search for a Missing Toddlerette led investigators to make a chilling discovery involved an underground kpounld. A live report next. Hey allergy muddlers. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Hundred roads named park in the u. S. Its americas most popular street name. But Allstate Agents know thats where the similarity stops. If youre on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the Washoe Zephyr could damage your siding. And thats very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. But no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local Allstate Agents knows yours. Now that you know the truth, are you in good hands . Phone Ringing a Phones Offers big button,ecialized phones. And volumeenhanced phones. , get details on this state program. Call or visit
a horrifying discovery in new mexico has led to charges of child abuse, and is many unanswered questions. Police raided this makeshift compound outside of santa fe. They were initially just looking for this 3yearold who had been missing since november. Instead, what they found, 11 emaciated children who looked to quote Law Enforcement like third world refugees. The childrens ages ranged from 1 to 15. They had no food, no running water, and wore dirty rags for clothes. Police now have charged five people with child abuse including the mothers of these children and Kalee Hare Tongue has been following this heart breaking story for us. Who are these people . How long were these children living like this . So many of the answers to those questions are unclear. The Sheriffs Office saying these are the saddest conditions he had ever seen. Investigators are working to
determine what these 11 children endured while they were living inside this compound. They are in the care of Child Protective Services right now who say their focus is on those childrens most basic needs now and ensuring that they are minimizing any further trauma. When authorities came to the scene of this makeshift compound, This Small Travel Trailer partially buried in the desert they found these two men who amassed something of an arsenal. They were heavily armed with ar 15 rifles. They had loaded 30 round magazines and loaded pistols and plenty of ammunition on them. Those two men are being criminally charged. One of them is the father of the missing child. The missing child, who is still missing. While these two men are in custody along with the three other womens who are believed to be the mothers the 11 children who were found Authorities Say they are not answering questions or giving up
any information about the whereabouts of this child. Authorities say they have reason to believe he was in that compound as recently as a few week ago. Today is that childs fourth birthday. Here is hoping justice is served and then some in this case. Kalee, thank you very much. Lets get you back to our Breaking News here. Rick gates, Paul Manaforts former right hand man, about to take the stand and testify against president trumps former Campaign Chairman. We will go live to the courthouse in Northern Virginia next. Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec®. Its starts working hard at hour one. And works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. Stadium pa all military members stand and be recognized. Sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. No matter where or when you served, tmobile stands ready to serve you. Thats why were providing half off family lines to all military. Voters. We sent our correspondent bill weir to ask them to weigh in on the president and his politics. Reporter they rumble in from all points on the comp pass. For one week each summer this little town of 7,000 explodes to half a million. This is one city that looks nothing like the rest of america. You can go hours without seeing a person of color. In sturgis, a minority is a white guy on a foreign bike. There are no debates over gun control here, offer the ethics of the me too movement. And there is no doubt who is the leader of this pack. You are a fan of the president . Do you think he is doing a good job . He is doing a lot better than what obama did. This ghost rider identifies him as john sands a Postal Worker who rides up from kentucky each year and like so many i talked to sees proof of trumps brilliance in the brooming committee. The trump bump. The economy is so good. People are feeling so good. Reporter rod woodruff is the owner of the buffalo chip, and says his hampers have an average income of 95,000 a year. 70 are homeowners in the united states. Lots of people own multiple motorcycles. We have a Tattoo Parlor up here. We have food, pizza, anything you want at the free access crossroads. Reporter do you have your own jail . No. We dont need one. Reporter you dont need, one . Violence and arrests are incredibly rare for a crowd of this size. One reason is that most folks share the same values. And those that dont keep it to themselves. What i see here in moirktding is a microcosm for the whole country. And i get the feeling sometimes that people that dont believe in whats going on is right become very quiet. I think there is a lot of hypocrisy going on in the country now because i feel like everybody wants freedom and they want rights but god forbid somebody disagree with you
because then you will get your head bitten off. Reporter not long ago the president aimed his trade guns at Harley Davidson. They shut down a packly in kansas city, laid off hundreds of workers and said because of the tariffs they would have to start production in a new country overseas. Which begs the question, is this the ultimate loyalty test for his base . Do these folks pledge allegiance to the president or Harley Davidson . Hell, im going to to go with what is going to make america better. If harley wands to choose to go somewhere else then i will choose to buy different bikes. I personally love the man. I think he is doing a wonderful job. Reporter despite the president s disdain for my profession they couldnt be nicer. Do i strike you as ann me of the people . Not at all. And its glad to have you here. Reporter no reporting, no matter how earnest, will change their minds. If you look at the russia investigation there is a lot of red flags and dark clouds. Thats over a lot of politicians. One they are picking on him because he is on the outside. How come the clintons can do things and no one else can. Im old enough to know what he the base loved Harley Davidson and hated russia. Seems like it flipped a little bit. I dont see any reason to call him out. If they dont want to be friends it is another story. Even Vladimir Putin a dictator, a murderer . He met with kim jongun as well. Yall are fake news. We all know it. Touch me. Back downtown, our presence sparks a debate between some fox news fans from texas and bonnie from nebraska. They dont know what they are talking about. Oh, come on. Yeah we do. You are unamerican, too. You are on the other side. Thats not true. I watch both. I go either way. See . Which proves we now live in a media age where people can choose their own facts. I have a friend who is very
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