Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Do it. As you said, he defended his summit with Putin In Helsinki and said the russians are unhappy hes the president of the United States when Vladamir Putin admitted at the summit he wanted donald trump to win. Theres this huge disconnect. We could all feel it in the Briefing Room earlier today and why you saw so many reporters asking that question. Yes, im sure it was very assuring to a lot of americans out there to hear the director of National Intelligence, fbi director, of Homeland Security to say theyre on the case. Looming over everything in the room is the fact the president has said all sorts of things to diminish the russian threat in the past. He just said it could be other countries, not just russia. Thats so opposite what we heard from his top officials at that briefing. And it was just yesterday sarah palin called the investigation into russia a hoax, wasnt it . Thats right. She
us. reporter: investigators believe pappas motive for killing dr. mark hausknecht was a grudge he s held for more than 20 years. that s when the suspect s mother died during surgery while being operated on by hausknecht. on the morning of july 20th, dr. hausknecht was riding his bicycle down this sidewalk. his wife said investigators told her that the gunman emerged from this scaffolding head-on and fired at him three times. it was a brazen attack. it occurred at the height of morning rush hour on this busy street. perhaps the gunfire was muzzled by the sounds coming from this construction site. but police say it was a well thought out and planned attack. so much so that it allowed the gunman to ride away on his own bicycle this way as if nothing had happened. chief acevedo tells cnn evidence found inside pappas home shows the murder was painstakingly planned. this man was actually studying this doctor, studying what he was doing for a while,
there s a manhunt in houston, texas, tonight. police are looking for a man accused of killing a renowned cardiologist who once performed surgery on george h.w. bush. the doctor was gunned down on his way to work at a hospital. he and the gunman were both riding bicycles. when their paths crossed, the gunman opened fire. this is the suspect caught on surveillance video moments before the deadly attack. with more on the manhunt and the crime, here s cnn s ed lavandera. reporter: houston investigators say as soon as joseph pappas suspected that investigators were closing in on him, he jumped on his ten-speed schwinn bicycle, pedaled away from his neighborhood, and disappeared. police chief art acevedo says there s a sense of urgency to capture the 62-year-old murder suspect. he s in great shape. he s a great marksman, and he s a great danger. so let s hope that somebody knows where he s at and calls us. reporter: investigators believe pappas motive for killing dr. mark hausknecht w