Diving. This is cnn breaking news. Good morning, everyone, im diane gallagher. Im victor blackwell. Good morning. We start with breaking news out of thailand. A rescue effort to evacuate the soccer team deep inside of a cave could start toon. So rescue teams are racing against the weather right now. You see the radar already starting. To make matters worse, action jen levels where the 12 boys and their coach are dangerously stuck, they are dangerously low. David, tell us whats happening around you now. Reporter good morning, yes, there is a real sense of urgency. Those rains could be coming soon and they could be sustained. If that happens, all of the water they have been pumping out to try to keep these 12 boys and their coach safe under ground, well that could all come to not if the water comes in they told us they could begin this extraction. They dont know exactly when, all sides point to them to try to bring them out through the narrow tunnels. Many of them cant swim. It will be harrowing and dangerous the parents hope they will come out alive, just like the rest of the world. Joining us on the phone, he returned from the cave site yesterday. He is continuing to work with the rescue operation. Thank you so much for joining us. Talk to us about the work that you have been doing there at the cave part of this mission. Thank you. I was not on site. Okay. You were not on site is right. Talk to us then a bit about the rescue operation, if you can. What is happening there . Reporter what is happening right now is those kids have been trapped for two weeks now in a narrow shelf inside that cave. They have been bound, but two weeks is a long time now with no sunlight. The lack of food. That has been taken care of. That has been found. They maybe took care, they have medics with them. The navy seals are training them so in case they get a green light to have extraction, to let them benefit. Thank you much for being with us. What are the things you got these 12 boys and their coach, very narrow paths. Are they going to bring them out individually . Are there 13 trips into and out of this cave . Is there a caravan or sorts . Is there a description of how many they bring out at a time . One thing we do know, based on the rescues, it must be said theyve never attempted a rescue like this before. They will have to bring each boy out from the inner most cavern individually through the narrow caves. Its hard to contemplate. But the reason is if any of the boys panic or it goes wrong or there is a lock down in that very tight space, if there are a whole lot of boys in that channel at once, it could be catastrophic. So someone will have to be the first brave young boy to go first with those divers, its an extraordinary effort. They shared with us they are joined by an american specialist, british, chinese and australian all working together in this real attempt to get these boys out alive. Real quick. Before we let you go. I know its starting to become nightfall there. Does that impact this . Reporter no, it doesnt impact this. Yogi they have been blacked out. Very limited light as they bring that in there. Because its deep within the cavern. About a mile into the mountain behind me. Ive seen them take these glow sticks that you crack and can last up to eight hours. They will most likely place that along this narrow route. Even if the visibility is near zero, it will give some possibly psychological reassurance to the boys if they get a sense in front of them maybe there is an exit because you cant its hard to imagine the sheer terror that will be going through their mind as they pull out day or night, it will still be black as night for those buys. Give us a sense of the atmosphere there now, the feeling amongst the people who have gathered around this cave, now that we are hearing from this official, that the extraction may happen soon . Reporter well, you might see behind me, you know, there are thai heavy officials, balances or in this area, a bunch of balances waiting for the possible moment when the boys are brought out. Its definitely a much more tense area. They have been getting ready. You mustnt forgive the messages the boys have been able to get out to their parents. One nicknamed tung, he wrote on a notebook. He wants to get out and have fried chicken. Heres his father who we spoke to a little earlier. I felt better as my son said he was fine and strong. It felt worried that he would be exhausted, tired. I fell better but i dont know whether he is tired or not. I just want to give him what helps. When he comes, we will go towing. Before that he and his aunt agreed to have fried chicken. Reporter his mum wrote a letter back we hope he has read at this point. Shy said i will be there at the entrance when you come out. David mackenzie for us there, outside this cave. Thank you so much. Well check back in with you soon. Right now search crews, they are trying to find an alternative to making the boys swim out by that cave. They are being drilled into the mountainside. This is an effort to reach the boys from above. Reporter from high above on an ad jace exhibit mountain, the geography is striking. Thats what the thais call bear Cliff Mountain and the great waive in ki the boys are trapped are down there. Tea are often characterized by chimneys and carens below its up there they are focused on search teams for a possible way in. If these search teams can identify an opening, we could preclude a ricky drive, they have to find one soon. Say caves breathe. In the suffocating heat, you can feel them from below. They are checking edible birds nests in thailand. Heredescending 300 meters. They ascertained they werent far above the chambers where the boys are trapped. This criminal my didnt go all the way. The hope is maybe others. Thats all they got, hope, hope the rain will hope. Hope they will finds a criminal my and hope the 12 little exhausted adventurers below wont have to do that desperate dive. Alisyn chinchar is watching the weather, of course how much rain is in the forecast how soon . Its a two fold. How long is that rain going to la last . It hasnt rained from july 2nd to july 6th. This is good its allowed it to recede. All the reds and oranges, thats the moisture. Its returning. With it are the rain chances, its mainly saturday night there. A 50 chance of rain. Not only do the rain chances increase, so does the total amount of rain widespread amounts. Talking fourtosix inches of rain in some spots keep in minds on top of what theyve already had. We talk about the longterm effects. We are just getting into the peak rainy season. For this location, its july and august. This wont be something they can wait a week or two, in reality the rainy season doesnt ends until the end of october. Coming up, a shift in strategy on President Trumps russia probe. How they may be planning to fight back ago ens the mueller team. Plus they are asking for more time, as the deadline nears. Well have a live update in texas. Preparations under way in puerto rico as the hurricane battle continues on its path through the caribbean, coming up, how the storm could impact the island that is still recovering from last years storm. I love you, basement guest bathroom. Your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. I love you, but sometimes you stink. Febreze air effects doesnt just mask, it cleans away odors. Because the things you love the most can stink. And try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. Breathe happy with febreze. The signs of a shifting strategy for the president s legal team. They set new conditions for a sit jo one special counsel robert mueller. The north korea times reports President Trumps lawyers want two things before they sit down for an interview, number one, they must have evidence the president committed a crime. Number two, the mueller team has to show they need testimony from the president to finish the russia probe. For more on what the new conditions they signal, lets go live to cnn white house Sara Westwood near where the president is spending the weekend. Tell us more about this new strategy from the president s attorneys. Well, President Trump is sending yet another small he will not cooperate with robert mueller, they are reporting trumps legal team made this demands yesterday, saying in exchange for President Trumps interview request, they must prove theyve uncovered the crime and it is ness for the probe. Rudy guiliani told the times if they cancom to us and show us the basis and that its legitimate and that they have uncovered something, we can go from there and assess the strategy. Its important to note that all the way pack in january, trump told reporters he would be eager to sit down with versions. So these new pre conditions certainly mark a shift in some legal tactics, perhaps setting the president up to approach the investigation in private as aggressively as hes approached it in public, of course, setting new standards for mueller to meet is at other by demands from trump and his allies, the special counsel wrap up the investigation as quickly as possible. Sarah westwood in new jersey, thank you very much. We are learning about a Trump Campaign questions to Paul Manaforts trial. They say a banker helped them get 16 million in loans while he was trying to get a role in the campaign. They say they plan to show the loans were approved, meanwhile, weeks before the child is set to start, manaforts lawyers are asking to move the trial and the start date. Joining me now to talk about this, senior political analyst and for the hymn, amy barnes, well woman back. Thank you. So you believe, oh, let me say this coauthor of shattered inside Hillary Clintons campaign. Cannot forget the book plug. You believe this is a credibility play . This is to try to chip away at the credibility of the mueller probe, if case there is something that comes out, whether its an indictment or faming the president as a coconspirator to try to convince the country, the president s supporters that its as he calls it a witch hunt . You are seeing a complete shift in strategy, the president earlier wanted to initially cooperate with this investigation and now you are seeing Rudy Guiliani saying, wait, not so fast. He will not cooperate until these conditions are made. I think its pretty obvious what they are trying to do is delay, delay, delay here. They want to sway public penalties. They feel its working for them, by the way. They see shifts in public opinions, in polls, backing them up, people are getting tired of the mueller investigation, people want to move on from it. So the more they can delay the better off. By the way the midterms are coming up. They dont want this to impact midterm elections, which they feel is very trushl right now for the republican party. Rudy guiliani says, ill admit, its the first time i read it, the attorneys will write their own report, their own summary of the case. Are they going through as the special prosecutors are, interviewing all of these witnesses, creating another narrative . Is there going to be a single sheet that says no collusion . They will release that . This is a substantial promise . I dont think they will interview everyone the mueller team are interviewing. I think they are trying to counter everything they will do. You saw objectivity being the key word in what Rudy Guiliani said. He is trying to demonstrate they are not being active. The mueller team is out to get them, donald trump is right when he says witch hunt every time. So this is something they will continue to press and say in the weeks and months to come. Lets turn to this reporting on manafort and this unnamed banker, who had advisory roles, the company was not involved with the administration, helped them get the 16 million in loans. What is the significance for a white house that says anything that manafort is charged with happened years before he was involved with the campaign, has nothing to do with trump or any of trumps associated . I think it sets them back a little bit. Obviously, they want to continue to say, no, this is all foreign interest. This has nothing to do with us. But, once again, here we are. There are ties to the Trump Campaign. So they can no longer say, you know, there is nothing to see here, this is a witch hunt. Because they can, there are ties now and mueller is trying to prove there is a connection here. Thats what theyre trying to do. Detail for us the case the attorneys are making in this virginia trial to guess it moved out of the d. C. Suburbs and southwest to roanoke about 200 miles away . They see that Hillary Clinton voters will, you know, come out and make this a very biased kind of case and that theyll have an penalties on this, they feel the d. C. Area is obviously not the place to do that, that arlington that area, alexandria, very much in favor of the democratic party. So theyre trying to move it to roanoke, which they think is a more even keel kind of place for republican voters. It was kind of 5050 over there in the 2016 elections. The president did far better in the southwest part of the state than in the d. C. Suburbs, amy barns, thanks so much. Thank you. Alrea all right. Still to come a deadline approach the government is asking for more time to reunite migrant families they separate. We have a liveup date from the Detention Center in a few moments. Two places not on the itinerary of the president s trip to the uk. Coming up a live report on the president s trip to the uk. Only when you book with expedia. When did you see the sign . When i needed to jumpstart sales. Build attendance for an event. Help people find their way. Fastsigns designed new directional signage. And got them back on track. Get started at fastsigns. Com. You might or joints. Hing for your heart. And got them back on track. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. Welcome back. Im diane gallagher. Im victor blackwell. The Trump Administration is facing several court orders to reunite Migrant Children with their families. They were supposed to make sure every parent should have a way to contact that child. They say their clients have not spoken to the krield at all. The government has until tuesday to make sure every child is reunited with their family. Every family must be reunited. So as the deadlines get closer, u. S. Officials are asking the court for more time to comply. All of this confusion and uncertainty is adding to the anxiety. Miguel, this is where a guatemalan mother is expected to arrive to demand her child back . Reporter we are starting to see this happening, parents are trying to get out under a normalized process. She got out of a Detention Center in texas about 48 hours ago. She says she knows her son is here and she wants him back. She had no indication of what the process was when she got out. Dhs was holding her. She gets out. They say you have family in florida. Go there. She says im not leaving the state of texas until i have my kid back. I know where he s. I want him back. She had no idea how to do this. She hooked up the local groups. They got in touch with dhs. Its 32 pages long. Its essentially a security background check and it is almost impossible for someone who just got out of detention to figure out you or i could have trouble doing it. She knows he is here on the under 5, the government asked the judge to provide a list of all 101 kids under the age of 5 in hhs. They want to know where their parents are. That is the part that the government is. Some are detained. Some have been deported. Some set out, set free because theyre on bond. The aclu said if you can get us that list, well help find the parents the government can do it the phone calls that were supposed to happen yesterday. We have heard it is an imperfect system. Even those that had one or two phone calls since they were deta detained, theyre five, seven minutes long the parents are crying the kids are crying, its almost impossible to communicate. 32 pages to try to get your child back. Miguel marquez outside that center there in brownsville. President trump will be at the nato summit next week. Nato allies are unhappy with the way the president has been going after them with military spending. We will explain. Plus, look at this, people packing stores. This is in puerto rico. Theyre stocking up with supplies because Hurricane Beryl is tracking now through the caribbean, coming up, when this storm could impact this island. President trump heads to brussels next week for the nato sum. He plans to talk to World Leaders about one of his pet peeves, not spending enough on their defense while the u. S. Puts as he says most of the bill. Candidate trump described countries as free loaders, owing back payments to nato, threatening to shift u. S. Military presence, unless they increase defense spending. But lets take a look at how nato works . What is nato . The north atlantic Treaty Company is committed to defending one another, founded in 1949, the start of the cold war, focused on fighting off then soviet aggressions. The expansion, communism across europe. Nato characterizes it to encourage european political integration. The u. S. Was the leading Founding Member here. Nato gave them a foot hold, today there are 29 member countries. For the large part a security of nato article 5 guarantees an attack on any member of nato is an attack on all members and all members are bounds to respond or assist the attack. Article 5 has been invoked once in the history of nato. It was in the u. S. In the days and weeks after 9 11. So why would those four countries want to join nato now . For the same reasons the organization was founded, common defense now against russian aggression. Putin has been expanding russian influence in the balkans. Okay, you know about russias annexation is of crimea in ukraine. This organization was expressty formed against russia, President Trump is warning to putin, hostility, understandably worries some of its members. So lets talk now with general wesley clark, supreme allied commander and contributor for the United States armed forces magazine, gem, welcome back to new day. It seems like a basic question. This is the level with which the president is attacking nato. I want you to listen to him at a rally this week in mount. I says, angela, i cant guarantee it, but were protecting