killing of the kingdom s journalist. and raise concerns over the future of nuclear weapons treaties with the us saying if there abandoned it would result in nothing but a new arms race. welcome to all things a national life from moscow i am here in the russian capital and i know hawkins thanks for joining us this hour straight to our top headline for this hour at least seven suspicious packages have been sent to politicians as well as a major news organization in the u.s. it was revealed that the packages contained explosive devices in new york call the incidents an act of terror. this is a very painful time. in our nation. it s a time when people are feeling a lot of hatred in the air in addition to new york city mayor bill de blasio we have heard from the n.y.p.d. as counterterrorism chief and he has confirmed that four of the explosive devices that arrived in suspicious packages seem to have the same source the devices that were sent to barack obama and to the home of hill
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president trump s first formal meeting with vladimir putin at the g-20 summit. it takes place with protesters marching, allies seeking reassurance, north korea testing missiles, china looking to fill the vacuum and so much more including now the breaking news. cnn has learned that even with all the attention, the reporting, the hearings, the fbi probe, intelligence officials are concerned that russian has accelerated its spying given the intelligence community which the president slighted today even more to do. more on putin, the summit, the president s resistance, all of it tonight. first, though, cnn justice correspondent pamela brown on the stepped up spying. pamela, what have you learned? we learned, john, russian spies are ramping up their intelligence-gathering efforts in the united states, this is according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who say they noticed this increase since the election. so it appears, john, the russians have not been slowed by
said, quote, the entire mainland of the u.s. is within range of our nuclear weapon and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office, unquote. and that s a questionable claim in terms of north korea s actual nuclear capabilities. but regardless president trump took to twitter this evening writing, quote, north korean leader kim jong-un just stated the nuclear button is on his desk at all times. will someone from his depleted regime please inform him i too have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my button works, unquote. the bellicose back and forth comes as the joint chairman of the chief of staff warns the u.s. is further quote with a war with north korea than ever before, adding, quote, he did not see this to resolve this diplomatically. president kennedy said every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of damicallies, the weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. and president trump this evening is
you just want to introduce him. can t get to him. hey, meacham, we always ask you historical precedence and actually a few here and obviously yesterday was a historical day. lined up with the woodwood book. the very public unraveling of this administration as told by members of this administration. what are the parallels? what are the historical preceden precedence? they re revealing in terms of when they came out. if you look at the pentagon papers and the johnson administration, that came out after the johnson administration. if you look at the remarkable details about richard nixon s last days in the white house where he s talking to the portraits and hoping the portraits don t talk back and he s asking henry kissinger to pray with him on the floor of the lincoln sitting room and having one drink or so and becoming incoherent and telling senators in 25 minutes i could kill 75 million people with a nuclear strike, which led the secretary of defense to say that any mil