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far. i'm kp christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell, good morning to you. >> president trump having a hard time it seems shaking off this russia controversy. still seeping into the white house there. and now his former security advisor, michael flynn, offering his testimony in oex change for immunity. the president however calls it a witch hunt. during an executive order signing ceremony, the president actually walked out without even signing the orders targeting foreign trade abuses after reporters started asking questions about flynn. >> and add this to the equation, secretary of state rex tillerson and defense secretary james mattis are criticizing russia's involvement in ukraine. mattis also calling out the putin regime for, quote, mucking around in other people's elections. >> want to bring in cnn politics producer. dan, i'm sure the president wants to get onto other policy issues such as tax reform, a lot of other people probably wanting him to get onto that as well.

what is it going to take for them to move forward at this point? >> the trump white house has been somewhat stuck in the mud. and that mud has been russia for a few weeks now. you know, you have all of these issues that the trump white house would like to talk about. empirically job numbers look good. they would like to talk about more health care plans, supreme court pick, business leader meetings they've had and as you said in the intro executive orders. but all of that has been overshadowed by russia. now president trump may not want to talk about this publicly but he's tweeting about this which kind of eggs on the story line. but president trump while he was signing -- or supposed to sign some executive orders yesterday, didn't want to take questions on this. let's take a look. >> thank you everybody. you're going to see some very, very strong results very, very quickly. thank you very much.

>> mr. president, will you tell the justice department to try to grant immunity to michael flynn? was that your intention, mr. president, sir? mr. president, was that your intention, mr. president? was that your intention, sir? >> the subtext there is clearly get me out of here. sean spicer has urged reporters to focus on the substance and not the process in the russia story. but it's worth noting the white house is certainly not wanting to talk about the substance of the russia investigation as well. >> good point there. dan, appreciate it, thank you. >> let's bring in aro lewis, jason miller, cnn kplert and matthew chance, cnn senior international correspondent. good morning to all of you. aro, i wa arol, i want to start with you. there continues to be a

discrepancy between the rhetoric we're hearing out of the white house, from the president himself, from his spokesman sean spicer and what we're hearing from the president's cabinet. you know, we've got tillerson saying they're mucking around in elections. you've got mattis calling russia a strategic competitor. there still is this discrepancy from what we're hearing from the president and the persons in his cabinet. >> well, you know, it's a sign of the system working, frankly victor. because you have cabinet members who are professionals, tillerson, mattis, these are respected individuals who didn't need the jobs that they currently have. and they're not going to sort of stray from the truth. they're going to sort of call it as they see it. the political staff in the white house has an entirely different agenda. the entire situation i must say would benefit from a little bit of silence from the president on down. every time he steps into this, every time he tweets, every time he tries to spin this a little bit more, it sort of makes the whole situation so much worse. if he would i think just kind of

let the professionals do their job, the sooner he does that we'll get more of the truth and they'll be able to get on with their agenda. >> matthew, let's talk about the deterioration of this relationship between russia and their affinity let's say for the trump administration. when it was coming in after the election, they were literally popping bottles there at the kremlin drinking champagne. but just yesterday the kremlin spokesperson says the relationship between the u.s. and russia is now worse than it was during the cold war. >> yeah, the champagne corks were so premature, weren't that? in retrospect. it's right. when trump was the candidate, he was talking about building a better relationship with russia. talking about potentially recognizing crimea as being a sovereign part of russia, cooperating with russia on international terrorism on the conflict in syria, criticized nato for being obsolete. all of this was music to the ears of kremlin officials and to the russian president. but of course none of it has

come to pass. the political situation in the united states now is toxic when it comes to the russia issue, and toxic is the word the kremlin uses to describe it. and they're faced with a situation where a turnaround in this relationship that they all hoped for under president trump is simply not happening. and the relationship is much worse now than it was during the very rocky years of the obama administration. and that's very disappointing and frustrating to many in power in russia. >> let's talk about the early years of the obama administration as they compare to the first 72 days of the trump administration, jason. as a candidate, donald trump criticized hillary clinton often for that literal and figurative reset button she presented to the russian foreign minister back in the early part of the obama administration. how is the trump reset any more effective? >> well, i think the reset that they need to be going for right now and i'll actually take it in a different direction than what

errol was saying. i think we need to hear from the president more. one of the things we saw on the campaign trail is any time we had a stretch where maybe it was a little bumpier, we were talking about things that weren't as popular, got to get the president on the road and get the president back to talking about what got him elected, which is the economy. two things we're not seeing now and we need to. further, the president needs to quick talking about 20% issues and back to talking about 80% issues. talk about things that are slam dunks. talk about taking on washington, things like term limits, jobs and the economy and showing a strong national security. in particular we need some fantastic gains when it comes to fighting isis. these are good things we can tout on the road. and also as we see with some of the foreign leader visits coming up, an opportunity to talk about the threat of north korea, very important. but look, president trump is one of the most gifted communicators i've seen in my lifetime. on the political sense probably the single most. to have him in washington so much where he's fighting against these hidden opponents and the

entrenched permanent bureaucracy class, that's like having michael jordan play a game with one hand tied behind his back. got to get him out on the road talking about the economy. >> jason, let me understand this. are you saying that the president should just stop talking about russia? >> i would say that this is an issue that's being driven by the media. there's absolutely nothing there. and right now the administration's being forced to punch at ghosts. it's a bunch of off the record illegally leaked sources that have come to absolutely nothing in any way, shape or form. if these folks had been looking at this for eight months and have nothing to show for it, there's nothing there. it's time to move on. to say there was coordination with some foreign entity in this campaign and that's the excuse for hillary clinton losing is just plain silly. so let's get back out to talking about the things that got president trump elected and make him so popular with people around the country. >> errol, what is the impact? i know you'll probably follow up to what you just heard from

jason, but the impact from the president calling the investigations collectively a witch hunt. >> well, i mean, it's a problematic term in the first place. the problem with witch hunts is that the implication is that witches don't exist. in this case there is a witch. his name is vladimir putin. he's a murderous dictator. he's got multiple countries in which he's meddled in elections. we've got former members of the russian parliament turning up dead, shot in cold blood. reporters assassinated, on and on and on it goes. financial ties that have never been disclosed between this regime and any number of members of the trump administration and the trump organization. so, you know, it's not as if everybody's concerned about simply the investigation into the election meddling. that itself is very important. but there are human rights issues at stake here. there are real serious questions about the financial ties and who is owed what and what kind of connections go back to the kremlin. and it's not unreasonable to ask some of these questions and expect them to be answered in due time.

but we can't get anywhere forward on that as long as you have things like a representative of congress, the chair of the intelligence committee showing up at the white house taking undisclosed information telling all kinds of conflicting stories about it. i mean, the mess is emanating from the people who say they want the mess cleaned up. >> well, errol, i think you made a great point right there which is the fact that so much of this conversation is being driven by people not named president trump. that's why he's got to get back out on the road and talking about the economy. let's go and put pressure on these red state senators, their democrats up in 2018, let's have them explain why they don't want to push for some of these free market job reforms and things like that. >> jason, let me get to you before we get to matthew i want to read this tweet from a russian lawmaker where he says the new u.s. administration sounds just like the old one. mattis indistinguishable from carter, tillerson is talking about russian aggression, obama and clinton must be happy.

so not only is this relationship in terrible state right now, doesn't look like it's going to get any better any time soon. >> no. and look, i mean, apart from the frustration we've already spoken about, listening to your guests talk there and listening to the political debate in the united states, i mean, you know, there must be a sense of, you know, satisfaction as well at the kremlin, because one of the things that it's plooefed they wanted to do when they intervened in the elections of other countries is to sew discord. put a cat amongst the pigeons and disrupt the western political system, particularly the united states political system. look at the service unfolding in the united states right now. the discord there, the disunity. in that sense this operation, if it was a russian operation, was a very successful one. so i think there's a certain amount of satisfaction in russia as well that they have been so influential in being able to disrupt the u.s. political system so completely.

>> all right. >> you can't blame russia for hillary clinton being a terrible candidate. >> we have to wrap it there. matthew chance, errol louis, thank you. there are charges filed this morning after that massive fire just collapsed a big chunk of the atlanta interstate. and now investigators are getting their first clues as to what likely happened here. also, terrorists stepping up their efforts to smuggle bombs onto airplane. how they're trying to stay one step ahead of airport screeners. ♪

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15 minutes past the hour right now. and first on cnn, u.s. intelligence agencies say terrorists have found ways to hide explosives in electronics that can evade commonly used airport screenings. what's more, they even have their own equipment to test whether they can bypass that security at airports. here's cnn's pentagon

correspondent barbara starr with the details for us. >> u.s. officials have grown increasingly concerned about the threats against aviation that they are seeing, not just from isis but also al qaeda in syria and al qaeda in yemen. u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that isis and other terror groups have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that can fool airport security screening. the concern is heightened because there is u.s. intelligence suggesting that terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport security equipment to test how well the bombs are concealed. cnn has learned this new intelligence was a significant part of the decision earlier this month to ban laptops, tablets and other electronic devices from the passenger cabins of planes flying directly to the united states from ten middle eastern and north african

airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices and various consumer objects. >> officials have told cnn there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets, and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. >> there's an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah because our intelligence feeds tell us that there's a significant external operations attacks planning. >> al qaeda's affiliate in yemen, aqap, has been for years actively trying to target

commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airport security measures including hiding explosives in the batteries of electronic devices like laptops. and in february 2016, a wakeup call when a laptop bomb, according to somali authorities was used to blow a hole in the somali passenger jet. the plane landed safely despite the attack claimed by the al qaeda affiliate al shabaab. cnn has learned the explosives were hidden in space created by removing parts of the dvd drive. the transportation security administration gave cnn a statement noting that while they will not discuss specific intelligence, they continue to monitor all the threats that they see and that they will change security procedures as they see fit. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> barbara, thank you so much.

the busy summer travel season of course is about ready to start as well, so we ask our experts how serious this threat really is say to american flights right now in this moment. >> there is a silver lining here and that is airport security and perimeter security to our airports has pushed isis and al qaeda to more and more sophisticated efforts to get stuff on aircraft because defensive measures in the united states and elsewhere have succeeded so well. there is one wild card here that we got to watch as we go into the summer season, and that is there are very few terrorists who are going to have the capability to alter a laptop to this kind of level to get through airport security. and u.s. efforts along with allies to eliminate those bombmakers i think would go a long way to eliminating a threat. it's not a man off the street terrorist who can take out the electronics in a laptop and build a bomb. >> what is the reality of this risk? have those machines been compromised by the fact that terror organizations now

actually have a real machine with which they can test the efficacy of their detection devices to avoid detection? and then you're left with, well, for goodness sake, if the u.s. and uk has banned those airports but passengers can now go through those airports and onto a frankfurt, paris, stockholm or whatever and then on to the united states, well, we really are now at the position of saying what can we believe when we actually get on a plane. because clearly there is no uniformity and no conformity in standards. >> thanks to richard quest and phil mudd there. the u.s. laptop ban currently includes nine airlines from middle eastern and african countries. officials say they will expand the ban if they feel there's a threat. victor. >> the white house now revealing the net worth of their key aides in the trump administration. ivanka trump and her husband

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always grateful to have your company. welcome to saturday. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell, good morning to you. >> so the finances of the president's closest aides including his daughter, son-in-law, they've just been revealed. >> we're now learning ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner's combined worth could

be more than $700 million. the couple collected roughly $195 million in income last year. now, this is according to a new financial snapshot of roughly 180 people serving in the trump white house. now, before they were advised to resign from various postings, divest certain holdings or recuse themselves from future decisions, these are the numbers we're getting. others included in the report president trump's top economic advisor gary cohn, former president of goldman sachs netted around $75 million. and chief strategist steve bannon raked in more than $2.5 million. let's bring in amanda, senior political reporter and politics managing editor for "the huffington post" and bring back jason miller. jason, let me start with you. we know that just last week we learned from the gsa that all was well as it relates to the president and the trump hotel there in d.c., some reorganization happening to make sure that the president wasn't profiting from the hotel while

he's in office. we know that ivanka trump will keep her stake in that hotel. why shouldn't she do the same thing to avoid any conflict of interest potentially from foreign dignitaries coming to the hotel trying to curry favor with the administration, just defer that income while she's working for the president? >> well, i think it's pretty silly to say that -- or to think that somehow someone staying at a hotel's going to influence decisions for an administration. but there are a couple things i think are really important for people at home to realize is that for jared and ivanka, not only have they been working with the office of government ethics, the white house general council, they've also been working with jamie gorlich, former deputy attorney general in the clinton administration, highly respected lawyer on the left who's been working with kushner and trump to make sure everything is moved either to a blind trust or the assets are being sold off. and for the businesses that still remain, gorlich is

reviewing the details of the business transactions to make sure there are no possible conflicts of interest. so you really see from jared and ivanka going the extra mile to make sure they're complying with everything. >> jason, hold up. before we go into the next topic, you say a blind trust and selling off is the standard -- gold standard here for ivanka trump and jared kushner. but we didn't see the president do either of those. >> well, the president -- i mean, the president's one of the most successful businessmen in the country. >> $700 million is nothing to sneeze at. >> the president's worth -- the president's not going to the white house to get rich. i mean, if anything he's losing millions if not billions of dollars. but what we should be talking about this morning is how great it is that the president's putting together these folks who've been so successful in business who want to give that up to actually come help the country. now they're going to get to tax reform, now they're going to get back to the economy. these are areas where the advisors whether it's steve mnuchin and gary cohn will lead this tax reform fight, i want people like that leading our tax reform fight so it can help the

rest of us keep a lot more of our money and not send it to washington. >> amanda, let me come to you. you heard what jason said they're going about this the right way. but there are still these real concerns from watchdog groups say in washington about potential conflict of interest. jason says it's silly to even consider it. >> even when the trump family has given up, it's -- you know, has sold or said we're not involved in the day-to-day management of our companies. i mean, trump has handed over management of his company to his sons, jared kushner has handed over the financial interests to his mother and his brother. i mean, it is still in the family. it is something they are still benefitting from. and can after they leave office. i mean, i don't feel the need to applaud millionaires for going into government service where they are, you know, still going to raise their profile when they get out they can benefit from all that. and trump is now using pretty much every weekend to go to his resorts, which builds up their profile. and now you see his properties

really benefitting from all this extra exposure because you have foreign officials, lobbyists trying to book things there to get a glimpse of the president or talk to some of his closest aides to lobby them and have some influence. >> victor, one important thing i got to jump in here on. >> go ahead. >> it's a lot different when you're a real estate barren and you've been so successful in that field as opposed to say being a goldman sachs employee. you don't just magically selloff massive chunks of real estate or things that you've worked years or even decades to go and create. i mean, these are things that, you don't just sell it off. you might be selling off at a terrible price, might be a bad deal. no one who's been so successful in business should be forced to go and literally throw their money away for the opportunity for public service. look, i think the trumps are doing right. here's the thing -- >> literally throwing their money away. the president knew the degree of separation he would have to create between his businesses and his administration when he filed his documents to run.

>> and victor, everybody knew that donald trump was a wildly successful business person. he's still got 306 electoral votes. this is something the american people fully knew, we saw it in the campaign trail. they decided we want a guy who's not part of washington. we want somebody who's been successful in business maybe go do something to make america great again. i think it's great. i'd much rather have someone who made a bunch of money from the business sector as opposed to selling access or being a washington insider. good for president trump. >> all right. isn't that the question about the hotel, amanda? selling access. again, jason says it's silly to consider that using this hotel to try to curry favor with the administration but that's exactly what it would be, would it not? >> yeah, i mean, look what's happening at mar-a-lago. trump goes to his property all the time. there are many guests there who maybe are there because of president trump who maybe want to just see him who maybe happen to be there for other reasons. but they're getting all of this exclusive access to the president that other people

aren't simply because they have the money to be there. trump is sending a signal that if you want to see me and maybe you koent nedon't need to sched meeting or anything like that, i will be there. and those people are paying trump and benefitting his family. and as a government official, if you want to sort of show that you are sort of above board, you need to show your public service is not benefitting your personal financial interests. the trumps have not done that so far. >> we have to wrap it there. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thanks guys. all right. well, it's unthinkable, really, women confronted with sexually explicit images of themselves online without their permission. the recourse for victims of reven revenge porn and what they're doing now to make sure we hear them. that's next. ous: (shouting) hei! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs.

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in just a few hours demonstrators are planning to march in new york to shed light on a worsening type of sexual abuse. we're talking about revenge porn here. in case you're not familiar, the exact definition is when nonconsensual pornography is distributed online to shame, exploit or extort its victims. there are at least two high profile cases of revenge porn right now. the military investigating the sharing of sexually explicit images of female troops, and in texas an 18-year-old high school senior committed suicide. she was harassed online for months when intimate photos of her surfaced online twochlt people have been charged in that case. well, leah juliet, the organizer of the march against revenge porn later today is with us. she was a victim of revenge porn herself as a teenager. also sara o'brien, cnn money reporter. leah, thank you so much to both of you for being here, but leah, i would like to start with you.

help us understand what brought you to this point. >> sure. when i was 14 years old and in high school, i was a victim of revenge porn when four sexually explicit images of me that were sent between a trusting consensual correspondents were spread throughout my high school and posted online. this terrible event in my life led to depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations and immense shame and i silenced my voice for a very, very long time. but then i realized that my voice is very important and worth more than being silenced. so i decided to speak out and start the march. >> how was it that you found the strength to start having those conversations? >> well, i've always been passionate about civil rights and social justice. and i realized that revenge porn is on the fringe of becoming an incredible social justice issue. and that it's something that is spoken about far too little and that affects people far too much. so -- and i also realized that

revenge porn is a cyber sexual assault that should be considered just as highly on a priority level for law enforcement as a physical sexual assault because it leads to the same results, the same feelings of shame, neglect, despair. and can certainly lead to physical sexual assault in the future as well. so it should be a high priority. >> you say that -- sara, i'm sorry, i'll get to you in a minute. leah, you also say it's a tool that spreads hate among the lgbtq community. help me understand that. >> absolutely. research shows that lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals are likely to be victimized by revenge porn at a much higher rate than straight counterparts. more than that even transgender and nonbinary individuals are likely to be victimized by revenge porn at a drastically higher rate. and we see that because we see the victimization of trans and

nonbinary folks at a much higher rate due to gender identity. oftentimes people want to exploit transgender people online by taking pictures of their genitalia to expose them or exploit them as having genitalia that is different than their gender identity. and so i believe that that is a hate crime rooted in hate and intolerance and must be stopped. >> okay, so, sara, help us understand the legal ramifications here. i mean, there is a challenge to trying to criminalize this kind of conduct. >> sure. so right now actually only 35 different states and washington, d.c. have laws against revenge porn. and even with those laws a lot of times you're dealing with law enforcement that doesn't necessarily understand kind of the ins and outs of the web and how this kind of crime is spread. so, you know, lawyers can kind of send a takedown notice to sites and get a site to remove it. they can sue for copyright. but a lot of times what ends up

happening is these images continue to resurface on different sites. so it really is a battle to kind of keep up with the pace of the web. >> to keep frit proliferating. >> right. >> but sara, what if say the perpetrator lives in one state and you're in another? at that point how do you pursue the case? >> yeah, so there are lawyers that deal with kind of the cross ramifications of this. i mean, that's why we really need a federal revenge porn law because it will also set a baseline for what the punishment is. because a lot of times even with the laws they're not up to par with what the impact on the victim, right? so the punishment doesn't necessarily fit the crime. even in the states that do have laws. so we really need a federal law to kind of deal with the cross state issue and to deal with the, you know, levels up the punishment. >> to give some uniformity to

it. >> exactly. >> so, leah, real quickly, i know you've organized this march today. what would you say to anybody who might be standing there along the sidelines looking at you wondering what you're talking about, what message you're trying to put out there? if you could look at them face-to-face, what do you want them to know? >> well, if you're standing on the sidelines wonder whag this event is about, that is half the battle. the purpose of having this march is not necessarily to change laws because we know that we alone cannot do that by simply marching, but to start conversation and in turn change social stigmas which will eventually lead to progression of the social justice movement and the political and legal spheres. so if people see us marching and wonder what we are doing, everyone knows someone who has shared a secret or an image that is trusted between a relationship and to have that image exploited or that secret

exploited is a terrible, terrible thing, so everyone can relate to this. >> they can. no doubt about it. in one way or another. we've all felt shame in some way. and to think of it being out there in any way definitely overwhelming. sara o'brien, leah juliett, thank you so much, both of you, for sharing thoughts and perspective. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> absolutely. and listen, stay with us because we want to tell you what's happening with this massive fire that destroyed a huge chunk of an atlanta interstate. fire crews believe now that may have figured out how it started. there are three arrests. we'll give you the lowdown on the investigation. stay close. kevin, meet your father.

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i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this week president trump went after the freedom caucus and threatened to take down its members, but are they actually more politically secure than he is? and might this be a precursor to his working with democrats? then, before testifying to the intelligence committee about russia, general michael flynn wants immunity. is that a sign that he has real dirt to dish, or just a good lawyer? plus, there were many headlines this week about how the gop sold out our internet privacy rights. but were they accurate? or will the move just preserve the status quo? and should prosecutors in the bill cosby assault case be