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
than previously disclosed including working as an informant and sources say nra is setting aside documents related to the kremlin with allegations they may have illegally funneled money to help the Trump Campaign. And the Breaking News and more with congre
did not vote with republicans on brett kavanaugh s supreme court position, you might recall. now coordinating and be in lock step with the white house when it comes to impeachment trial strategy. in fairness when i heard that i was disturbed. to me it means we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. and so i i heard what leader mcconnell had said. i happen to think that that has further confused the process. for me to prejudge and say, there s nothing there, or on the other hand, he should be impeached yesterday, that s wrong. in my view, that s wrong. joining me now, samantha vin
if there was a time to pay attention, it is now. starting this week, the impeachment inquiry will step off the private stage and land in the public eye, making a huge and important change in the impeachment process. that brings us to your weekend presidential brief with cnn national security analyst samantha vin grad. sam, so far witness testimony has all been in private. we have seen a number of transcripts released from those closed-door hearings, among them national security council s alexander vindman and fiona hill. what kind of issues did you see in their testimony? let s start with the walking, talking, texting security risk currently assigned to brussels. hill goes through in detail the security risks that ambassador
wrong for so long as president and even when he was candidate trump, but the problem is, is that if he says something without condemnation, a firm condemnation where there s no wiggle room, you know, people would question it and once again it leads people to wonder if he, you know will he support white supremacy? is he a white nationalist? all of those he s got to come out and call it out and if he adds resources to help new zealand, that would be an a-plus plus for this president. april ryan, samantha vin owe grad, good to talk with you, thank you. new details on this attack including the white supremacist manifesto that appeared on social media. i m here to let all these folks know how easy it is to save money on their car insurance with geico- oi oi oi set the pick! kick it outside!! shoot the three! shoot the three!! yessssssss!!!!!!
the intelligence community briefed him on it weeks ago. at least before he went to some and some of these pictures apparently were taken before his summit. so he knew this before he went. i think that that s a pretty clear indication of how he went into hanoi. but his response was to express disappointment and to give kim jong-un a year-long hall pass. he said, well, we ll see in about a year. that means kim jong-un can keep nuclearizing and taking these kinds of steps for at least a year. he s giving kim jong-un the room to continue this malign behavior. what we need to do is consider a response. kim said that he would freeze these tests in exchange for us freezing military exercises, but if kim pushes the envelope on these tests, we should reconsider, perhaps, a calibrated military exercise. samantha vin grad, great to see you. thanks, ana. coming up, the inside story on america s most powerful political dynasty and how they put two u.s. presidents in the white house. a p