Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
forces. allies are also supporting and stepping up military aid and international support. we discussed what more we will do including cybersecurity assistance and providing equipment to help ukraine protects against chemical and biological offence. allies agreed that we should also help other partners to strengthen their resilience and shore up their ability to defend themselves. including georgia and bosnia. the allegations of war crimes have sent shock waves throughout the world. this is the reaction of former world chess champion and long standing putin critic garry kasparov. speechless. every morning i wake up
have to be mindful of the fact that this is going to be very difficult for the ukranians. we re going to see an increase in the death of civilians and we ll see more instability on the part of vladimir putin. what that means for the united states and the western world is that we have to continue to work to isolate putin and to make absolute sure that he feels so squeezed that he has no option but to pull back on this and deal with the consequences. michael, we are seeing an increase, according to our colleague alex marquardt on the ground there on strikes on informational targets, and even ordering civilians to move away from those targets. we have talked so much about u.s. and nato involvement and the restrictions in complications there. from a cybersecurity perspective, are there things that can be done? sure. there are certainly things that can be done to provide cybersecurity assistance to the ukranian government and to
ongoing threats. he asked the officials standing next to me to brief the american people on the work being done to protect the integrity of our elections. efforts are under way to provide cybersecurity assistance to state and local authorities and actions to investigate, prosecute, and hold accountable those who illegally attempt to interfere in our political and electoral process. to address these matters further, i want to welcome director of national intelligence dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, director of the national security agency, general paul, and national security adviser ambassador john bolton to make some comments and take questions on this topic. as you all know, we ve addressed what occurred during the 2016 election numerous times and rather extensively. the purpose of today s briefing is about what we are doing now and in the future to protect the integrity of our elections moving forward, and we ask you stay on that topic. in order to help this run smoothly, w