it would be a major success for president trump on trade if it happens. and the royal wedding, just a day away, meghan markle's family meets the queen today. we're live in england with final preparations. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm david briggs. >> and i'm christine romans. president trump and his allies are ramping up an aggressive campaign toundc unde the russia investigation. the fbi now taking steps to protect other live investigations and lessen the danger associates might face if the informant's identity becomes known. an fbi informant had provided information early in the fbi's russia investigation. >> the president doing his part to discredit the special counsel, where else, on twitter, alleging his 2016 campaign was spied on, even predicting an ensuing scandal be, quote, bigger than watergate. this high-stakes standoff, pitting president trump, the republican chair of the intelligence house committee devin nunes against the intelligence agencies. they warn publicly identifying the source would put lives in danger and compromise ongoing operations. just yesterday fbi director appoint bid president trump, chris wray, said this. >> the day that we can't protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe. >> white house lawyer rudy giuliani telling the washington post the president believes some have been conspiring against him, giuliani also suggesting that the bureau may have embedded a spy in the trump campaign. listen to this exchange between a reporter and press secretary sarah sanders. >> does president trump believe that the fbi had a spy, at one point, inside his campaign? >> i haven't spoken with him directly about that but certainly have seen the reports and if there is any truth to that, it should certainly be looked into. >> the idea of an informant inside the trump campaign originated with testimony by glenn simpson. now he is the co-founder of fusion gps, the firm that authored the unverified dossier on the president. simpson testified the former british agent who investigated trump told him the fbi had intelligence frrom, quote, an internal trump campaign source. simpson was actually referring to someone from outside the campaign who contacted the fbi. >> stay tuned there. meanwhile, president trump says u.s. and north korean officials are moving forward with preparations for a summit in singapore next month, despite threats from pyongyang to pull out of talks over the shall of denuclearization, the president also assuring kim jong-un he will remain in power if he abandons his nuclear weapons program. >> and contradicting john bolton, dismissing the notion of applying the so-called libya model. he was referring to the dismantling of the nuclear program and its weapons of mass destruction but the president seemed to be focused on the military operation that removed qadhafi eight years later. >> we have very much in mind the libya model from 2003, 2004. the libya program was much smaller, but that was basically the agreement that we made. >> the libyan model is not a model we have at all when we're thinking of north decreea. in libya, we decimated that country. that country was decimated. there was no deal to keep qadhafi. the libyan model that was mentioned was a much different deal. >> got that? let's bring in paula hancocks to unwrap all of this this morning, live from seoul. it appears the national security adviser is talking about 2003, 2004 and the president is talking about some eight years later. what do you make of all this and what's the reaction? >> well, david, it's interesting. even though you've got that disconnect between the national security adviser and u.s. president talking about completely different things, in north korea's mind these two would be linked. when they're saying they don't want to be like libya, they're not just thinking about having that libyan model of the denuclearization deal, they are thinking about what happened in 2011 when the leader, momar qadhafi, lost his life by rebels backed by washington. pyongyang doesn't want to be another libya, another iraq. that's the reason they've given the need for their nuclear weapons, saying it's an insurance policy. we also heard the u.s. president mentions president xi jinping of china. this article suggesting that they wouldn't want to meet the u.s. if the u.s. was going to push them into a corner, going to insist on unilateral nuclear disarmament. that came shortly after that trip with president xi. mr. trump making a connection there. there is a sense that some realism has been injected into this summit. no one expected it to be smooth. no one expected it to be easy. but at this point, most people do expect it to go ahead. dave? >> paula hancocks live for us in seoul. thank you. china may make a big concession to president trump, offering to buy $200 billion more in u.s. goods. in washington, it's round two of trade talks between the u.s. and china. china offered to buy more merch goods, slashing the u.s. trade deficit with china by more than $200 billion. reuters is reporting that china denies this. china may struggle, though, to buy $200 billion more. it bought only about $130 billion last year. its two biggest purchases, planes and soybeans. a deal could ramp up sales for boeing. china is its second largest market or eliminate the current tariffs on $4 billion worth of u.s. farm products. also unclear, what china wants in return. though the u.s. is already working to lift a ban crippling the chinese tech giant zte. trump administration set to announce a new rule today aimed squarely at planned parenthood. clinics that provide abortions or even discussed options would be stripped of federal funding. the new white house policy would force those services to be performed in a different place and by different employees if that facility is to keep federal funding. >> the leak that have horrible john mccain joke leading to some operational changes in the white house communications office. according to a senior white house official, the daily staff meeting has not been held for several days and is not likely to resume. that's because someone leak aide kelly sadler's remark about senator mccain's opinion not mattering since, quote, he's dying anyway. staffers are now gathering separately in smaller groups, we're told, to streamline the operation and maybe make it easier to identify any leakers. gina haspel, president's controversial nominee for cia director has become confirmed. roller coaster ride for her nomination which appeared to be in serious danger, the post 9/11 interrogation and detention program. republican senators opposed haspel but six democrats backed her. most of the democratic support coming from senators up for re-election in states won by president trump in 2016. house republican leaders vowing to hold a vote on conservative immigration bill. gop leaders are attempting to appease competing interests of immigration on both ends of their party. conservatives were holding up a forward on immigration. but just a few votes away, including the proposal to save the daca program. >> trying to use a procedure that would let them bypass legislative roadblocks. outgoing house speaker paul ryan doesn't see the tactic working. >> the question is, can we get legislation to the floor that has a chance of making it into law. it's futile to bring a discharge through that would guarantee nothing goes into law. >> many moderate republicans pushing for a vote are facing races, tough ones, in november. member of the house committee on science, space and technology has his own theory on rising sea levels. rocks. republican congressman mo brooks of alabama denying the vast body of research showing rising sea levels over the past 100 years are a product of a changing climate. here is his exchange with climate change researcher philip duffy. >> every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise. now you've got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. all of that displaces water, which forces it to rise. does it not? >> i'm pretty sure on human time scales those are minuscule effects. >> so not rising sea levels but rising sea bottom levels. a day later the republican-led committee tweeted a link denying climate change is causing sea levels to rise. >> rocks. they fall in and they -- that's based on science, right? kilauea volcano erupts, sending ash 30,000 feet into the air. new lava flow from reactivated fissures. more from hawaii, next. hawaii's kilauea volcano spewing ash 30,000 feet into the air. after handing out nearly 18,000 masks, they warn residents to stay indoors. so far this event is mirroring a similar eruption in 1924 that lasted 2 1/2 weeks. overnight, several fissures reactivating with lava flows and leilani estates, that entire region devastated. we get more now from stephanie elam. >> reporter: dave and christine, it was an early morning weak-up call as kilauea continues to erupt. a sharp plume came into the sky about 30,000 feet. scientists do believe this was in line with that lava getting below the water table and water and lava mixing, causing these erupti eruptions. there are still people who live in leilani estates and gardens. this was the road. you can see the power lines down and the sea of lava. this road used to drop off, i'm told. now it's rising up into a mountain of molten rock that's still steaming. you can hear the crunch of the rocks underneath us and these massive fissures that are opening. it's not clear if they will turn into the fissures that will ooze gas and lava but still people here have been watching to see if it will engulf their homes and in some cases, it has already done that. this next story is for you migraine sufferers, first drug for migraines. once a month shot saw their migraines cut from eight days to four on average with some minor side effects. it costs $6900 a year without insurance. three other injectable migraine drugs are expected next year and several pills to prevent migraines are now being tested. delivering that racist rant in a new york city cafe has done it before, two new videos emerging, showing other confrontations involving attorney aaron schlossberg. this one in boston two years ago. willie morris said he bumped into him on a sidewalk when this happened. >> what country are you from? i'm going to call the police. you don't run into people. i'm a citizen. you're not. you're an ugly [ bleep ] foreigner. so [ bleep ] you. >> wow, side note. willie morris is from massachusetts. >> he's an american from massachusetts. in this other disturbing incident, a man named isaac saul said he yelled at an orthodox jewish man participating in a protest calling him a fake jew. making a run for it. he has called and left messages at his law office but has not heard back. where schlossberg's office is says it's terminating his agreement with him. he may not have gotten some of our messages. you know, his firm is on yelp and there was a one-star campaign on yelp for people all over the country to give him one-star reviews. >> this, they call the tactic yelp bombing? >> yelp bomb iing. yelp had to clean up his yelp review yesterday because it was overwhelmed with people telling yelp what they thought of him. >> he can backpedal. >> i don't know that it's a good business move. severe weather threatening the great plains. let's get the late frest from d van dam. >> more wet weather is expected today for places like baltimore, philly and d.c. flash flood watches for those locations. anywhere you see that shading of green, that's where the national weather service has issued the flash flood watch. in terms of rainfall totals, remember, we've had continuous days of rain throughout this region. so this is additional rainfall on what's already fallen, 2 to 4 inches not out of the question for southern maryland, eastern virginia and portions of coastal north and south carolina. due to a stationary front. that will keep our hot and humid conditions in place for these locations. middle and upper 70s for the carolinas. 67 for d.c. 65 for new york city. and a cool day tomorrow with chances of rain but warming up nicely to end off the weekend. 80 by sunday. back to you. >> thanks. if meeting your in-laws was tough, welcome to meghan markle's world. her mom meets the queen today, ahead of tomorrow's royal wedding. we're live in windsor. my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce wrinkles. neutrogena®. if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. 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do you have a pretty hat? >> i'm not. i didn't actually get an invite to the wedding itself and so on that i'm rebelling and i'm not going to wear a fascinator. >> in your journalistic professionalism you're covering the wedding for us. >> bright pink, dave looks great in it. >> i'll put that on twitter, i'm not afraid. she expose aid different fascinator in my office so now there's mystery over what alisyn will wear tomorrow. one is blue, one is pink. >> interesting. part of an effort to undermine the russian probe, the bureau scrambling to minimize the fallout. president trump's allies reportedly trying to find out a top secret source at the fbi, part of a campaign to undercut the russian investigation. trying to minimize the damage if the source is revealed is the fbi. trump and bolton may not be on the same page on one key issue when it comes to north korea. and china proposing a boost in $200 billion in american purchases. the royal wedding a day away. meghan markle's family meeting the queen today. we're live in england with the final preparations. 40 -- how much butter was in that cake? >> 44 pounds. i love me some butter. >> yeah. >> bring that on. >> welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. will you get up early for the royal wedding? >> i think it's fun to watch. but we fought a war so we wouldn't have a monarchy. i always go back to yorktowne. president trump and his allies wrapping up a campaign to undercut the russian investigation by exposing a top secret fbi source. the bureau is scrambling to protect other live investigations and lessen the dangers they may face if the identity becomes known. an informant had provided information early in the fbi investigation. >> the president doing his part to discredit the special counsel, alleging his 2016 campaign was spied on. he is even predicting an ensuing scandal will be bigger than watergate. the high-stakes standoff pitting president trump and the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes, against the justice department and intelligence agencies. their leaders warn identifying the source would put lives in danger. chris wray, the fbi director, appointed by trump, said this. >> the day that we can't protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe. >> white house lawyer rudy giuliani telling the washington post the president believes some law enforcement officials have been conspiring against him. giuliani also suggesting that the bureau might have embedded a spy inside the trump campaign. listen to this exchange between a reporter and press secretary sarah sanders. >> does president trump believe that the fbi had a spy at one point inside his campaign? >> i haven't spoken with him directly about that but certainly have seen the reports, and if there is any truth to that, it should certainly be looked into. >> the idea of an informant inside the trump campaign originated with testimony by this man, glenn simpson, co-founder of the firm that authored the unverified dossie rch on the president. he testified he was told that the fbi had intelligence from, quote, an internal trump campaign source. but then a source close to simpson later said he was referring to someone outside the campaign who had contacted the fbi. >> i need another cup of coffee. president trump says u.s. and north korean officials are moving forward with preparations for a summit in singapore next month despite threats from pyongyang to pull out of talks over the issue of denuclearization. the president also assuring kim jong-un he will remain in power if he abandons his nuclear weapons program. >> contradicting his own national security adviser john bolton, dismissing the notion of applying the so-called libya model to north korea. bolton was refer together dismantling of the libya's weapons of mass destruction but the president focused on the military operation eight years later that removed moammar qadhafi from power. >> we have the model from 2003, 2004. there are differences, the libyan model was much smaller. >> the libyan model isn't a model that we have at all when we're thinking of north decreea. in liba we decimated that country. that country was decimated. there was no deal to keep qadhafi. the libyan model that was mentioned was a much different deal. >> let's bring in paula hancocks live from seoul. clearly, we know these remarks from bolton really angered the north koreans. where do we stand now? >> well, christine, at this point, as far as we know, the summit is being planned as expected, but certainly the north koreans were annoyed by those libya comments. the fact is even though john bolton was talking about something different than what the u.s. president was talking about when it comes to libya, for the north koreans that, is one in the same thing, when they've been talking consistently over recent years, saying that they didn't want to be a libya, they didn't want to be an iraq, they are talking about how the ending came for the leaders of those countries. so for them it's one in the same. we do have some information just coming into us in the past few minutes as well that north korea has rejected the visa applications for all south korean journalists who were wanting to go to the shutdown of the nuclear test site. earlier, they said north korean and south korean journalists would be invited to witness that shutdown along with experts. surface we know at this point those visa applications have been rejected. >> that's a big reversal. didn't the north koreans invite the foreign press corps to come and see this digs mantling of this facility? >> that's right. when they announced that they were going to shut down this nuclear test site in the northeast of the country, they specified south korean journalists and american journalists, because they said they wanted it to be transparent. they wanted to have expert there is as well. this is a site where all six of the nuclear tests have taken place. so they made quite a thing about wanting this to be very public. but now we know, at least from the south korean side, that the visas have been rejected. >> fascinating. paula, thank you so much for that, in seoul for us this morning. excitement overnight. u.s. officials say china plans to buy $200 billion in u.s. goods, making a big concession to president trump and now this morning china's foreign minister throwing cold water on that. in washington it's round two of trade talks between the u.s. and china. u.s. officials say china offered to buy more in u.s. goods, slashing the trade deficit by $200 billion. and then china denies it. that top line number matches what the u.s. demanded in beijing two weeks ago. if this were to happen, china would struggle to buy $200 billion more in u.s. goods. it only bought $130 billion overall last year. the two biggest purchases were planes and soy beans. a deal could ramp up sales for boeing if they were to try to reach that $200 billion number, or china would have to eliminate the tariffs on farm products. also unclear what china wants in return. though the u.s. is working to lift a crippling ban on china company zte. news just now from china's foreign ministry that, no, they have not offered to do that. bilateral consultations are still under way, an untrue rumor coming from the u.s. side. they say don't over interpret or overthink their investigation of u.s. sorgum. >> they want high-tech goods after tianamen square. trump administration set to announce a new rule today aimed squarely at planned parenthood. clinics that provide abortions or even discuss the procedure with patients would be stripped of federal funds under the new regulation. family planning laws prevent direct federal funding of abortions. they still accept federal dollars for annual screenings and checkups. those services would be forced to be performed in a different place than abortions and by different employees if that facility is to keep its funding. gina haspel, trump's nominee for cia director winning confirmation by 54-45 vote, culmination of a roller coaster ride, her nomination, which appeared to be in danger over haspel's role in the post 9/11 interrogation and detention program. three republican senators opposed haspel but six democrats backed her, most of those supporte supporters up from re-election in states where president trump won in 2016. mo brooks of alabama denying the vast body of research denying that rising sea levels are part of a climate change. here is his exchange with researcher philip duffy. >> every time you have that soil or rock, everything that it is deposited into the seas, that forces sea levels to rise now. you have less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. all of that displaces water, which forces it to rise, does it not? >> i'm pretty sure on human time scales those are minuscule effects. >> on human time scales. a day later republican-led committee tweeted a link denying climate change is causing sea levels to rise. all right. the kilauea volcano erupts from its peak. ash, 30,000 feet into the air. overnight, new lava flow, reactivated fissures. more from hawaii, next. ahh... summer is coming. and it's time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month if you don't use them. so take audible with you this summer... on the road... on the trail... or to the beach. start a 30-day trial and your first audiobook is free. cancel anytime, and your books are yours to keep forever. no matter where you go this summer make it better with audible. text summer5 to 500500 to start listening today. there's a tug of war over the future of cbs and the boardroom drama could shape the media landscape. on one side cbs chief les moonves, attempting to break free from the redstone family that have controlled cbs for decades. 11 board members voted to strip sherry redstone of majority control. redstones says that tally fell short of the threshold needed to do so. at the center of cbs' belief that they will force a merger with viacom, the family's other media company, mtv, nickelodeon losing ad dollars meanwhile cbs has flourished. they say it cannot wish away the reality it has as controlling shareholder. preparations in the uk in full swing for the royal event. anna stewart is live with all the details. good morning to you. what are you following this morning? what's the latest scoop there? >> reporter: well, this morning i've actually broken into windsor castle, in the castle grounds away from all the public after the last few days of being on the streets. it's quite nice here. the grass is like a carpet, dave. it's lovely. in terms of release of information, we are expecting d dorian raglan, meghan's mother, to meet with the queen. she met with prince charles yesterday at clarence house as well as his wife the duchess of cornwell as well as prince william and the duchess of cambridge and their kids. she's already met some in-laws and the biggie is yet to come. i would love to be a fly on the wall for that. we have details about the big day. lots of information on the cake. i was telling you earlier, it does sound delicious, but it sounds a little bit calorific. it will include lemons and two kilos of butter and two kilos of sugar and two kilos of flour. this is a lemon and elder flower cake not the traditional fruitcake you normally see that at a british wedding. the top tiers of the cake are often used as the christening or baptism cake for your first children because it lasts that long. so that's why it's fairly interesting. >> that sounds terrible, to have a cake that can last a couple of years. but i get british tradition. >> a bit grim, isn't it? 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[ bleep ] you. >> on a side note he is from massachusetts. >> and in another incident, accusing a man of being a fake jew. trying to catch up to him, ignoring questions for three minutes before making a run for t cnn has called to leave messages with his law office in midtown. we've not heard back from him. company that operates the business center where his law office is says it's terminating his agreement with him. the landlord's not happy. maybe he didn't get some of our messages. you saw the yelp review? he was yelp bombed. >> i'm happy he can backpedal on the sidewalk. can he backpedal on the comments remains the question. >> there's so many of them. maybe he doesn't feel he needs to or wants to. let's check in with cnn money this morning. global stocks seem to be lower following wall street's lead, for a few reasons. u.s. trade with china, and the bond market. ten-year treasury yield is at a seven-year high, raising concerns about inflation and interest rate hikes. walmart's overall sales grew last quarter. the focus, online sales jumped 33%. walmart is working hard on its digital side, spending a lot of money there. there's a larger plan to shift perception of its brand. that's part of it there. it wants to appeal to younger, wealthier -- maybe the amazon customer. however online sales account for a small part of walmart's total sales. the big day is almost here. the royal wedding is tomorrow and the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle could easily cost over $4.1 million. that includes the cost of cleaning statues, fixing roads and, of course, security. including a ceremonial escort. who is picking up the tab? that's a sensitive issue. in the uk, taxpayers will bear much of the cost. >> from what i understand, meghan markle will pick up the tab for her wedding dress, some $200,000. "early start" continues right now. president trump's allies reportedly trying to expose a top secret source at the fbi, part of the campaign to undercut the russia investigation. the bureau trying to minimize the damage if the source is revealed. >> the president pushing forward with plans to meet with kim jong-un but north korea with a major reversal about its pledge for transparency, dismantling its nuclear facility. u.s. official says china is on the verge of boosting purchases of american goods by some $200 billion. it will be a major success for president trump. but china this morning throwing cold water on these reports. and the royal wedding just a day away.