Poor judgment. And those who met with the Trump Officials in 2016 now admitted she has closer ties to the kremlin than previously disclosed. Was she lying all along. The nra connection. Allegations that the russians may have funneled money through the nra. It is a cnn exclusive. And korean thaw, a historic meeting between kim jongun and the south korea president , the two vowing to finally end the korean war and work toward denuclearize is. Is north korea already dismantling the test site. Wolf blitzer is off. Im jim acosta. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Were following Breaking News, including a new report that russian lawyer at a 2016 meeting with top Trump Officials had closer ties to the kremlin
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calmly and seriously and don t raise or lower expectations but the the expectation is she will oppose opening an impeachment inquiry even after this hearing. brianna. manu raju from the hill. and joining me now is democratic congressman david cicilini a member of the house judiciary and foreign affairs committee. thank you for being with us. my pleasure. want to talk about the preparation for the mueller report but first talk about iran which has just seized at least one oil tanker, boarded another or inspected another. you sit on the foreign affairs committee. have you been briefed on this? we have not. this is these events have just happened. but this is a very serious and dangerous situation, frankly. it is in part the inevitable result of a failed policy by this administration. the president walked away from the iran deal, instituted additional sanctions on iran, with really no strategy of what to do after that.
president trump is back at it renewing his attacks on a muslim congresswomen and now praising the crowd which chanted send her back saying her rally was made up of incredible patriots, a day after the president claimed to disavow the ugly chant under pressure from his daughter ivanka and concerned gop allies but now the president who started it all with racist attacks on four minority congresswomen said somali-born congresswomen ilhan omar is lucky to be where she is. i ll speak with david cicilini and our correspondents and analysts have full coverage of the day s top stories. let s go straight to pentagon correspondent barbara starr. tell us what you re learning about the oil tankers that were seized just 30 minutes apart. reporter: a very unsettling day in the persian gulf region, brianna. officials directly familiar with the event said they were seized 30 minutes apart and it is an
explosive. it has damning evidence against the president. all mr. mueller needs to do is recount for the american people exactly what he found. this will be the first time most people actually hear what is in the mueller report. most people haven t read it. i, of course, did. a lot of american people have not. this will be their opportunity to hear from the special counsel what he found. the evidence of misconduct of the president. the efforts to obstruct the investigation and that will be very, very powerful. mr. mueller is not going to my guess is he won t add anything new. but he ll very, very seriously and soberly walk us through that report and walk through the findings so the american people could have a full understanding about the misconduct of this president. congressman david cicilini, thank you for joining us. my pleasure. up next, brk, officials say iran has seized at least one oil tanker in what the u.s. military believes was a planned operation. and close to 200
understand what is in the document and mueller s testimony is the first step. it is not the last step. at the end of the day, robert mueller is we said earlier, it is like calling the police officer that investigated a crime whenever you re trying it in front of a jury. you might call the detective, but then you ll call all of the principle witnesses to tell the story for themselves. don mcgahn, hope hicks, cory lewandowski, we need those aligned as well. and we just had david cicilini on and he said does he need to go beyond the report and the congressman said no, he doesn t. what do you think? there is this belief amongst house democrats and a lot of aides that i ve spoken with helping bosses prepare for next week, which they consider a big flash point in this whole rallying cry to impeach the president and that this is going to be a learning experience. we know that there are a number of republican lawmakers who haven t even read the mueller report so for americans not quite f