the bright side. finally an all girls soccer team between ages of 12 and 14 in spain won their league title against all boys. after years of dominating the competition they joined the boys league in 2014 and have been doing a lot of celebrating. the team's coach said a referee once called them the princesses. they've come to the right field. how rude. three years later they won the championship breaking the stereotype in sports that girls can't keep up with boys. so let's hear it for threads. you know they went out and won. that's all you have to do in sports is demand that respect. that's what they did. >> be interesting how the boys talk about their loss there. all right. >> in a tweet you said there might be tape recordings. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be

honest. if tapes exist it would be very disturb field goal they disappeared. >> i talked to the president. the president has nothing further to add. >> i'm focused on what's in my control and that is what is congress doing solve people's problems. >> loyalty to the country. little to the united states is important. >> this president needs to be impeached. >> no one, no one in this country is above the law. >> some might be subject to the investigation. it looks like an obstruction of justice. >> we don't have press conferences. >> you don't mean that. >> you know sean spicer. he's a wonderful human being. he's a nice man. >> any other questions? good morning to you on a saturday morning. it's 7:00 a.m. so good to have your company. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning. >> the white house looking for a

new fbi director after james comey's sudden dismissal earlier this week. issue number one for whom ever gets the job is picking thunder investigation into russian meddling in last year's presidential election and collusion between president trump's campaign team and russia. >> today is the first day of interviews. these four candidates are in the running. attorney general jeff sessions who was supposed to have recused himself from anything related to russia will lead today's interviews. this comes as the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee tells cnn former director comey will not testify next week. the president's threatening tweet to comey about tapes about a private conversation between former directory comey and his boss but the president won't elaborate on that. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be taped recordings. >> i can't talk about that. i won't talk about that. all set up for comey to be honest and i hope he will

remember, i'm sure he will be. i hope. >> the white house incredible thought comey's firing wouldn't ignite backlash. we have more on the communications crisis that the white house is facing. >> reporter: a week of turmoil at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. recovering from the fallout could take some time. that uncertainty comes from perhaps president trump's most controversial move since being elected. sacking james comey the head of the fbi. >> he's a show boat, he's a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that. i know that. everybody knows that. >> reporter: the firing came down tuesday evening without much explanation from the white house p.m. it was a bomb shell decision that comey learn of on television in the background at the fbi field office in los angeles. the surprise move sent shockwaves through capitol hill. with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing concern. >> it appears as if this hawgs is attempting to stop the

investigation into the connection between the russian government and trump campaign. >> surprised by it. i personally didn't feel like director comey's performance rose to the level of dismissal, but obviously that's the president's decision to make. >> reporter: the white house seemingly had difficulty getting the story state initially saying the decision came on the recommendation of the new deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> the president accepted the recommendation of his deputy attorney general to remove james comey from his position. >> reporter: but less than 24 hours later president himself directly contradicting his own team. >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> you had made the decision. >> i was going to fire comey. >> reporter: the president also claimed comey lost the trust of the rank-and-file members of the fbi, something that was rejected by the acting director of the agency andrew mccabe just two days after comey was removed from office. >> the majority, the vast

majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. >> reporter: as the pressure mounted on the white house the president himself took to his favorite media, twitter. defend his surrogates and warning that quote james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. a serious accusation that the white house has still yet to explain. >> are there recording device in the oval office or in the residence? >> there's nothing fourth add on that. >> reporter: something even one of the president's closest allies is refusing to weigh in on. >> i decided i won't comment on the tweets of the day or the hour. let's get into it. eugene scott is with us as well as gaby, washington bureau chief for the "new york post". eugene, the white house's refusal to elaborate on the president's tweet on these

potential tapes. was this sean spicer in that interview, the white house not wanting to try to defend the indefensible or do they want some ambiguity here about the possibility that visitors to the white house and people who speak with the president are being recorded. >> i think what's very possible is that we've seen sean spicer previously say that there are times when the president tweets and they have not yet had a conversation with him about the content of the tweet or what he meant even if they did know what he was talking about. and i think at left what they are trying to do is get more information about what it is that he himself was actually referencing when he made that tweet. but the fact of the matter is many people are paying attention and that's definitely not a tweet that's probably going to be ignored or go away any time soon. >> one person who hopes that tweet will go away because he's not going to talk about it, speaker of the house paul ryan. let's listen to more of what he

said yesterday. >> the tone of that tweet was that it's possible there were recordings made of what may have been considered private. > i'm going to leave it to the president to talk about and defend his tweets. i'm focused on what is in my control and that is what is congress doing to solve people's problems. i'm working on health care reform, tax reform. those are the things i got elected to do, those are the things within my purview in congress. >> pretty selective what he's talking about. also the silence from congressional republicans on the firing in large part of the former now director and these tweets is noticeable. >> yeah. no, it is. it absolutely is. i'm starting to feel bad for paul ryan because like eugene said he along with the president's staff is somebody who wakes up in the morning to these tweets and has no indication of the president's thinking ahead of the time and then has to react to these

things later on in the day. and oftentimes a lot of these tweets are distractions from what congressional leaders are trying to focus on which is like getting health care done, looking ahead at other issues. every single time president trump issues a tweet like he did yesterday which came early in the morning, was then the talk of the town for the rest of the days leaders like paul ryan and mitch mcconnell are then forced to weigh in on it. it must be exhausting for them to be keeping up with this president. >> also exhausting potentially for the white house staff. dan rather, a name folks know from watching cbs news over the years, he posted on his facebook page about this week that the white house just, had the country just went through. he said i never seen a week where a president of our nation has behaved with such cavalier disregard for norms and

institutions of our democracy. eugene, from your perspective, how does the white house see this week? >> well, i think the white house is probably still trying to figure out everything that happened this week from the firing to the most recent tweet to today's interviews with the people who are likely or possibly likely to replace james comey. i think what staffers can do a better job of doing hopefully for us in the media next week is getting on the same page to communicate not just to us but to the american people what is exactly happening in the white house. >> they can't be expected to be completely accurate so says the president. >> which is difficult because that certainly is our expectation of them and i imagine the expectation of the people who helped send donald trump to the white house. i think accuracy is not a lot to ask for from the president of the united states and his staff. >> let's watch a portion of that interview with fox news where

the president discusses the future of those white house briefings. >> are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you? >> yes. that's true. >> so what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences and we don't -- >> you don't mean that. >> you just don't have them unless i have them every two weeks and i do them myself. we don't have them. i think it's a good idea. first of all -- >> so is the president just trolling us with this idea? >> look, i hope so because to get rid of the daily white house press briefing would be a complete affront on the duty of us as journalists to be holding this administration accountable. look, i think the problem here and the problem that the president himself just admitted in that interview is that like eugene is saying does notify his staff when he's making sweeping decisions, when he's planning to fire off a few tweets in the

morning that have significant consequences for his administration and for the dialogue that's going on that day. and he's moving too quickly. he's trying to fit so many things into every day, every week of his administration that his communications shop is just being, you know, run into the ground. i do think that this week probably more so than any week during his administration so far has really shown that there are significant issues inside the white house in terms of the communications that are happening between press shop and the president himself and that those are issues that need to be worked on going forward. otherwise this is just going mess on every issue that happens going forward. >> moving too quickly. all right eugene, gaby, thank you both. so straight ahead there's a global cyber threat demanding its victims pay up and guess what? it's spreading now into the u.s.. we'll talk about it. >> fallout at the epa.

two experts at the agency walking out over the dismissal of half of the scientists on a review board. in just few moments we'll speak with one of those doctors who resigned.

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biggest victims alongside taiwan and ukraine. you have ministries affected, interior ministry, ministry for emergency situations, russian railway, domestic banks, telecom companies and follows a pattern we're seeing in other countries around the world. no significant breaches of data reported. but we're hearing from europe hold which is the policing system in europe. they have just tweeted to say this cyber attack is an unprehe is dent-- unprecedented level o attack. how it works it goes into your computer. encrypts your data and demands a payment $300 to $600 and if you don't pay within that particular time that payment goes up. which makes you cry. edward snowden who is also in russia has been tweeting, because this vulnerability the virus comes in through was exposed in a dump of nsa data

that was hacked and put on the web about a month ago and it is thought that cyber criminals got hold of that data and have developed this ransom ware out of that and he says that shows how dangerous it is when intelligence agencies use these tools and they get in the wrong hands. >> thank you so much for bringing us the latest there. joining us now david kennedy, formerly with the nsa. good morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> so first and foremost, to all of the people who are sitting in front of their computers right now at home sipping their coffee, should they be worried and how much does this affect them? >> well actually as of late last night a security researcher on twitter was taking a look at the software itself and found it was trying to communicate out to a website and found that the website wasn't registered. he registered it and accidentally found a kill switch inside of the software itself which actually renders the software as of today now useless.

so the software has stopped spreading across the world. he actually probably saved lives by accidents by registering this one website name in his name and it's really interesting to see how this is going. the problem with this specific one with juwanna cry it's easy put any time of ran southern plains ware payload into this device and have it sent out. we're seeing chatter on the dark web and ransom ware authors incorporating this technique. we're not out of the water and we'll see a lot more next week. >> let me ask enthusiast i'm a novice in this arena. $300 to $600 holding these files ransom. one would imagine not knowing the arena that if i'm paying you $300 to $600 that money has to go somewhere and that account could be traceable and lead to you the person who is responsible. no? >> well, the problem is that we

moved to an online currency bit coins. all hackers, online currency is what people use to maintain anonymity, not to being tracked heavily. the whole online currency is designed to be anonymous. you're paying not directly into somebody's bank or doing a wire transfer you're paying into this online currency area and that's extremely difficult for law enforcement to go back and track. they used to be able to track through money laundering to find these individuals but unfortunately it's very difficult to track these folks through bit coin and that's where this whole ransom ware has boomed because it's difficult to find them. >> so we just heard from diana about europe hold tweeting out this requires an international investigation. do you anticipate there will be one? and will it be able to find a way to stop things like this from happening? >> well, the problem is the chances of guesting hit, getting identified as a hacker is

substantially low. something as high as this one, with as much damage as it has done, there probably will be substantial investigation going on to find these hackers. they have before in the past found these. what i would say is the way this was delivered, all the code is now out there on how to replicate, there will be a lot kochy cats and folks in the hacking communities trying to replicate this and get this out there quickly to make money. maybe toauthor of this may get discovered. it will take a lot of collaboration between different countries to find out where they are located at. work with extradition laws. be a very long process in the event they are even able to find them. >> all right. david kennedy, we so appreciate your expertise. thank you for sharing with us. four candidates not being considered to replace fired fbi director james comey. president trump is hinting he may have tapes of conversations

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a source in the justice department tells cnn that four candidates are being considered to replace james comey as fbi director. the new hire will oversee the investigation of russian meddling in last a year's presidential election and possible collusion between president trump's campaign team and russia. as for president trump he's not yet finished with the former fbi director issuing a thinly paper thinly veiled threat on twitter to james comey hinting there

could be tapes of their conversations. the top democrat on the senate intelligence tells cnn that former director comey will not testify in front of the committee next week but senator mark warner says he's still hopeful. >> it's very important that the congress and more broadly the american people hear director comey's side of the story. >> so what does the law say about what should happen to any recording physician they do exist? cnn legal analyst is with us and also a constitutional attorney and criminal defense attorney. so good to have you with us here. let's talk about the presidential act as of 1978 which defines and states public ownership of those records and establishes a process for restricting and public access to these records. so the likelihood is here that the 1978 act doesn't mandate that the recordings, that they be turned over if there are some. >> there are two separate

questions. one the law does require if there are tapes they have to be preserved. the second question is do they have to be turned over. and in that situation you would expect the white house, if they want to keep the tapes to themselves, they don't want anyone else to hear they would resist producing them and argue skiff privilege applies. >> so i want to listen here to representative of the foreign affairs committee what he had to say about the president taping conversations. >> if i were the president i would tape everything that is said around me and what i said because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued. whether president trump did or did not that's up to him and his white house so that's a question they will have to answer. >> smart strategy to tape? >> dangerous strategy. that's what happened with nixon. it makes sense if you want to preserve a particular meeting you can either take notes or

record it. these days if you record something you have an accurate record of exactly what was said and there will be meetings that affect the national security interest, other domestic policy interests that you want preserved. makes sense to tape it. but let everybody know number one you're being taped when you're in the white house but two, the problem is if you're having conversations you don't want america to know about you better not have a tape. there's going to be some secrets, we assume within the white house and i don't necessarily mean bad secrets. >> national security things. >> exactly that shouldn't be taped. whatever decision you make it hats to be consistent and that's what the law does require. >> when we look at this we know that there are about nine democrats at this point who are already talking impeachment. is there anything in this process that you've seen thus far that would constitute or warrant is that. >> the constitution is very broad on impeachment. basically high crimes or misdeamnors. that's ultimately up to congress. if they think there's enough typical peach him they can move

forward with impeachment. you have to have enough people in congress to do it and given the make up of congress these days i don't think it's possible. it's important to point out you don't have to show that the president committed a crime to impeach him. everyone is talking about whether or not this is obstruction. ostruction is a federal law that's very difficult to prove. you have to have certain elements in place before you can someone charge with a federal crime of obstruction but you don't have to charge him with a crime to impeach him. >> so, comey being fired doesn't impede the investigation, though, at all. he can be subpoenaed to testify. as we're hearing this morning based on the "new york times" reporting he wants to testify and wants to it be public. >> yes. i think that he does. i do think trump intended to affect the investigation by removing comey. he basically said that when he sat down with lester holt he admitted he thought about the russian investigation, thought it was meaningless. the fbi agents who are already

involved in this investigation, they are going to keep doing their jobs. but they could be redirected, reassigned by a new fbi director and that's why the only way you can have any credibility or confidence in this investigation is to have a special counsel appointed and everybody is talking about that now. >> does it do anything also, though, other than help the optics of it? >> it certainly helps the optics it. somebody like the deputy attorney general who has a lot of respect from both parties, if he really wants to do something here to restore confidence in both the fbi, the justice department and the country as a whole, he will appoint a special counsel. because even if he could independently make that decision without any influence from trump or the white house, there's still the public perception that this thing is all so messed up now that the only way straighten it out is to get someone in from the outside. >> to go back to something you said, i want to make sure we clarify it. when you talk about the

conversation the president had with lester holt on nbc and what he talked about russia and how it was all made up, could that moment of that conversation be submitted as evidence against him when these nine democrats are talking impeachment? >> yes, absolutely. it comes close to being the federal crime of obstruction. you have two things in place. an official proceeding. kbhoe there was an onbeginning fbi investigation. president trump knew there was an ongoing fbi investigation. second thing you have to show the president corruptly influenced or tried to corruptly influence that investigation. i think that's what he was trying to do. but it's so fuzzy that i don't see a federal prosecutor not that we could find one willing to prosecute trump at this point because they would be fired willing to take on a case like this because the law is not clear. if congress wants to go back, play the tape with lester holt he admitted he had russia on his mind when he made the decision. >> but in all defense as well

president has broadly, he can fire whoever he wants. >> no question about it. but the decision to terminate someone could be made for improper motive and with criminal intent and that could be enough for impeachment. >> thank you so much for all the clarity this morning. appreciate it. former first lady michele obama is sending some harsh words to the white house. her concern comes after nutritional requirements were scaled back for school meals. she asked simply what is wrong with you? >> this is where you really have to look at motives. you know. i mean you have to stop and think why don't you want our kids to have good food at school? what is wrong with you? >> a policy change loosen meal standards that the first lady promoted. experts at the epa say they are deeply concerned over the leadership there.

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tillerson contradicted the administration signing an international del international declaration. two expert advisers to the environmental protection agency have resigned in protest over the agency's decision to dismiss nine of the 18 scientists on a key science review board. let's bring in one of the experts who just resigns dr. peter myer. dr. myer, welcome to you. >> thank you. i'm happy to be here. i guess i'm not happy. >> let me read a part of the letter you seib limited along with the other doctors who resign. we have deep concerns about the leadership at the epa and continued object fuse occasion of science and research enterprise. what are your concerns? >> our concerns are simply that from what we've been able to tell with regard to the actions

to dismiss or more accurately let's be specific here, actually not renew the appointments of nine members of the board of scientific counselors to the office of research and development of the epa, that herp n they were not renude when they came on board, we were told that we had a four to five year assignment. we expect troebd nude after our initial three years terms were up. the fact they didn't do that created a sense that they don't want to hear from us any more. >> let me read the response from a spokesperson for the epa to the "washington examiner". advisory panels play a critical role rereviewing the agency's work. i want to ensure fair consideration of all the nominees including those nominated who may have previously served on the panel and carrying out a competitive

nomination process. they say essentially this is typical of a board like this. you say to that what? >> i say that you don't bring us on board, giving us an assignment which was true of the entire subcommittee on sustainable and healthy communities in which dr. martin and i were members, you don't give us an assignment that says it's going to be four years long or five years long and then turn around and not renew our leadership after the first three years are up. we learned how to work together as is true of any kind of a team, once we learn to work together the team is weakened when you take away certainly it's leadership. our particular case we're dealing with an incredible mix of different kinds of discipl e disciplines and takes a little bit to work together. >> besides the personalities getting to work together and these specific members and leadership of this counsel, do

you believe that this epa, that this administration does not want to hear from scientists? >> i'm increasingly convinced of that, yes. >> what's the evidence? >> the evidence, the most obvious piece of evidence that i can offer you is the proposed budget for the epa for the 2018 fiscal year. the one that begins october 1. that proposes a 40% reduction in the appropriations for the office of research and development, which is the branch of the epa charged with make sure that what the epa does is based on sound science. >> what do you make of this fairbanks declaration that secretary tillerson signed this week, with all of the countries with arctic territory that cites the importance of reducing greenhouse gases and pollutants

while the administration weighs withdrawing from the paris agreement. >> i can't make sense of the two things simultaneously. they don't make any sense to me. if you're going to try to pursue the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the arctic, why not pursue it elsewhere in the world which is basically what the paris agreement is about. >> but do you think the administration potentially is backing away or reconsidering what the president, then candidate trump talked about during the campaign cancelling the agreement after the election. he said he had an open mind to it and now they've delayed this announcement that was pending on whether or not they would stay in it. are you reassured by that. >> i can't say that i'm reassured because bluntly this administration is totally unpredictable. i would like to think this is a hopeful sign. i'm certainly pleased with the

position of the secretary with regard to the fair babanks agreement. that doesn't tell me what will happen with the paris agreement. i think backing out of the paris agreement is hazardous but it's not something that will strengthen the united states in its trade negotiations with any of the other parties to the agreement, just alienating the rest of the world and that doesn't make any sense to me as an economist. >> multifaceted and multi-lay ared. dr. peter myer a former member of the board, thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> as i said earlier this is not my pleasure to be here. >> we were happy to have you. you know, it's all about optics. growing worry abroad about america's ability to lead. this coming, of course, ahead of the president's trip overseas later this month.

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48 minutes past the hour and the president graded his efforts in foreign policy giving himself an a plus and he did so as he prepares for his first trip abroad later this month to broadcast a message of unity. this past week with a lot of chaos surrounding james comey ace dismissal that prompted people overseas to question whether the u.s. still has the ability to lead. >> but national security adviser h.r. mcmaster reasserted the u.s. is still in command. >> the president has done a great deal to strengthen our alliances and america first didn't mean america not leading. america to secure and advance its interests >> cnn international editor, diplomatic editor nic robertson joins us now from london. we hear the framing ahead of this big trip.

>> yeah, we do, that there's american leadership. this is what presidnt trump is going to be promoting here to make alliances with leaders around the world, important alliances that are going to make the united states more secure, significantly pointed out by hr mcmaster, national security adviser that president trump will be the first president to visit the home lands of the world's three major. all this at a time the world is looking at president trump and his actions and what's gone on in the last few days, beginning to wonder a little bit more about who is this american leader. trump, comey, and that russia meeting. it is enough to worry america's closest allies. >> britain deserves better than simply absence of the country's prosperity to the whims of the

trump white house. >> reporter: trump an issue, the uk flailing opposition leader looking to lay hits on the pm, bringing up that hand holding again. >> government will want a strong, friendly government with the united states but we will not be afraid to speak our mind. >> reporter: even the philippines outspoken leader shaken with the prospect of trump in the driving seat on north korea. >> the first victim would be asia and southeast of countries and the rest because those are really player -- donations -- >> one american diplomat at a loss, tweeting this. increasingly difficult to wake up overseas to news at home

knowing i'll spend the rest of the day explaining our democracy and institutions. in london, those worries resonate. >> mr. trump has the idea if he is ability to sack and hire as he pleases which is a real shame. plays games with democracy as it is. >> we have quite a strange impression of him over here i think. >> sort of gives trump a bit of a dictator feel. >> reporter: mostly the world is busy getting on with its own stuff. in france, relief the trump style candidate lost. >> we will not have a french donald trump. >> reporter: more than 100 days of this now, the world is watching, wary of what comes next. what comes next, that trip by president trump. and you know what, it is not just the saudi arabia visit, not just israel, not just visiting the pope, not visiting brussels

and italy. across that span of travel is likely to meet with as many as 37 different world leaders, if you take it all in. there's a real chance for the president to set his own mark on the global stage, but it is against the backdrop for everything everyone has been watching recently. >> the domestic challenges stay with him as he travels. nic robertson as he travels in london, thanks so much. we are a couple hours away from the president getting in front of the camera when he returns to liberty university, the largest christian university in the world. he will be delivering a commencement address. live pictures for you as they get ready. expecting to hear some politics in this address as well. we will be there to cover it live for you. a couple's love stands the test of time after a love letter finds its recipient more than 70 years after it was sent. mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv.

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