times" this morning that the line was meant to be used to discuss strategy in syria and policy issues. >> of course, all this comes as president trump's overseas trip draws to a close. he spent this morning attendsing a g7 round table. in a few hours the president is will speak to u.s. troops at an airbase in sicily before heading back to washington. the ongoing investigation hanging over the white house. investigations plural, and here's more on the latest reports. >> reporter: intercepted russian communications discussed a proposal by president trump's son-in-law jared kushner to russia's ambassador to the u.s. to create a secret communications channel between the trump transition and the kremlin, "the washington post" reported citing u.s. officials briefed on intelligence reports. the post reported kushner made the proposal to russian ambassador sergey kislyak during an early december meeting at trump tower to use russian diplomatic facilities to shield

their pre-inauguration discussions according to u.s. officials. cnn previously reported the two men met as part of an effort to create a back channel to russian president vladimir putin. the white house did not comment on the report. these revelations come as the fbi probe of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election includes looking at kushner. the fbi is drilling down on kushner's multiple roles in the trump campaign and post-election transition. key among them the trump campaign's data and analytics operation. >> i've heard and it's been reported that part of the misinformation, disinformation campaign that was launched was launched in three key states, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania and it was launched interestingly enough not to reinforce trump vote toers rs tt

but target clinton voters with misinformation in the last week. >> reporter: federal investigators are examining whether russian operatives used trump campaign associates wittingly or unwittingly to aid their own efforts to push information about hillary clinton online. as trump's top foreign policy aide, kushner's contact with russia is under scrutiny. he was one of four campaign aides in contact with kislyak and met with the head of a russian banker with close ties to vladimir putin. at first he failed to list those contacts when he applied for a security clearance but later corrected those forms. >> seems another day another name. it's hard to find who in this administration is not being connected with suspicious ties to russia. it just points out how important this investigation is. >> reporter: officials tell cnn kushner is not currently the target of the investigation but believe he may be able to

provide information that could be helpful to the fbi probe. now his lawyers says he has volunteered to share information with congress about his meetings with the russians and willing to talk to the fbi if asked. >> let's go to sara murray. sara, the headlines have been coming daily almost hourly during the president's trump. we know the president is tweeting but not about this. anything from the white house? >> reporter: we are not getting any comment from the white house about this notion that jared kushner was trying to set up a back channel sort of arrangement with the russians, back channel communications effort but there was a wave of stories, reuters report that jared kushner also had previously undisclosed contacts with the russian ambassador to that we did gelt a statement from jared kushner's

attorney. mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls. he has no recollection of the calls described. they asked for dates. we have not received such information. really no answer from the white house what's going on with this. there's no indication because jared kushner communicated with the russian ambassador that's an indication of wrongdoing but does show you how this russia cloud continues to hang over the trip. now president trump and his aides are still hoping to end on a high note. shortly he's headed to the naval airbase in sicily to have a rally with some american troops there. back to you guys. now former u.s. ambassador to nato under president george w. bush nick burns has some harsh words for the president in response to this "the washington post" report. take a listen. >> i never understood why candidate trump and i still don't understand why president trump has given russia a pass.

he's been the weakest president we've had since well before the second world war on the issue of russia. >> let's bring in cnn national security analyst. good morning to you. the reporting from "the washington post" suggesting that jared kushner wanted to set up this back channel. let's just start generally with your reaction to someone who is still part of the administration wanting to go to a russian facility, to their embassy to have these conversations with the kremlin. >> in the scale of stories that have been dropping as you said every couple of hours, this one is different and it is huge. so this is not a back channel as people in the law enforcement and national security community came to know, sort of understand back channel. back channel is actually a president or president-elect used the resources of government to sort of secretly start a communication with country,

let's say cuba or burma to begin to lay the ground work for sort of more public plodiplomacy. this is jared going rogue. there's no other way to put it at this stage. this is a country that clearly the trump campaign knew was, had infiltrated the campaign or done things to do with the campaign. kislyak, the campaign surely would have known is a known figure with ties to the kgb. jared kushner is having multiple meetings, not just kislyak that are secretive and not disclosed and it was not just russian government but bankers with ties to the kgb. kushner not disclosing any of this in his forms. and then you have a story yesterday that is, you know, at best, you can say kushner was naive but the idea that the

russians would open up their own apparatus, intelligence apparatus to a 30 something son-in-law of a president-elect, it so defies sort of any good explain swrags, that the best explanation for kushner at this stage is he's incredibly naive. >> i want to point out the report from reuters this morning as well so we tuned numbers. they are reporting 18 undisclosed calls or emails seven months prior to the election, six of those calls with kislyak, the fbi examining whether rurngs suggested to kushner or to others that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to the president. so clarify that, does this suggest the fbi has knowledge or evidence that this happened, that russia suggested these things, or this is just something they suspect? >> it's probably that -- i mean the way the fbi would look at this, what's the theory of the case. this is what the challenge for

all of us, i'm very careful with you, i don't say collusion, i don't say treason. what's the theory of this case. clearly reporters at reuters and others are talking to those involved with the case. and if they are to believed, you know, i understand the concerns with leaks, if they are to believed, one of the animated theories of the case is that this had less to do with the campaign and collusion, all those that's still out there because remember jared ran that data mining office within the campaign, but more to do with whether or not changing the sanctions, sort of quid pro quo would have benefitted kushner and trump organizations. it's why people like me, nonpartisan in this regard yeah we should that have transparency on the finances because what we don't know is sort of the private side of kushner and trump in need of finances that could be paid for by banks that are understand sanctions right

now? so that to period is, you know, already it's illegal or not, it's not in america's best interest and that's why all of these theories of the case, what is it that the investigation is looking at are expanding. in other words there's multiple theories of the case and there's more people implicated. kushner in particular. that's really bad news for the white house because what they would have liked, right, is that the investigations stick with carter page, sort of dismiss carter page. jared kushner is at the front door of the oval office. he has security clearance. he's a senior adviser. we're close to the oval office now and that is disconcerting from anyone's perspective but has to be explained by the white house. they can no longer say it's just weird carter page or manafort who was fired. this is now in the white house. >> talking about this being close to the oval office in the white house i want to go back and take the viewers to january

15th. the then vice president-elect mike pence with chris wallace on fox news being asked about potential communications between anyone with the incoming administration and the kremlin. let's watch. >> was there any contract in anyway between trump or his associate and the kremlin. >> of course. why would there be any contacts with the kremlin. >> we knew that to be untrue after the truth came out about michael flynn's conversations with sergey kislyak. but this further illustrates how a, the vice president-elect then was telling something he knew not to be true or was woe fuful out of the loop on what's happening with this team. >> pence is hard to figure out right now. i don't know if he was so completely out of the loop of his own transition. remember he was running at this stage that all this other stuff was going on and he had no idea. that's the best explanation for

him. or if he is understood what was going on. i suspect multiple people will be getting lawyers relatively soon. on this flynn issue watts so interesting, remember flynn has also lawyers, he has offered -- he wants immunity from the house and senate intelligence committee. they don't appear to want to give it. we do not know if the fbi isn't it in that immunity. one of the questions has always been is flynn the focus or does flynn have information that implicates other people? now everyone originally thought it was trump but maybe that information actually has to do with jared kushner. remember, flynn is in the room with him, with jared kushner in a lot of these meetings. so the kushner-flynn relationship becomes significance for investigators.

>> all right. always great to have your input. >> it's getting complicated. >> we appreciate entrepreneur sight. let's turn to the former fbi director james comey who acted on intelligence he knew was fake. and being put out by russia during the clinton e-mail investigation. we'll tell you why he says he did it. also the son of a former vice president candidate tim kaine now facing charges. what police say he did at a pro trump rally in minnesota. >> police say two men are stabbed to death after trying to stop an anti-muslim rant. what the suspect yelled at officers when they tracked him down. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple.

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16 minutes past the morning. we have new information. former fbi director james comey acted on russian intel that he knew to be fake as he was investigating hillary clinton's emails.

cnn's chief political correspondent dana bash walks us through. >> reporter: cnn has learned that then fbi director james comey knew that a critical piece of russian information related to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation was fake. but he felt he needed to take action anyway because he was concerned that if the information became public it would undermine the investigation and the justice department itself. this according to multiple sources. these concerns were a major factor in comey to declare the clinton probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta lynch. you may remember earlier this week "the washington post" reported on this intelligence and doubts about its credibility. the fact that comey felt he had to act based on russian disinformation is a stark example of how russian interference impacted decision-making at the highest levels of the u.s. government during the 2016 campaign. the russian information at issue claimed to show that the

attorney general lynch had been compromised in the clinton investigation because of emails between then dnc chair debbie wasserman-schultz and a political operative lynch saying the fbi probe would make the probe go way. according to one government official in classified briefings, comey told lawmakers he was afraid the information would, quote drop and undermine the investigation but comey didn't doubt the accuracy of that information even in a classified setting a few months ago. according to sources close to comey the fbi director felt the validity of the information didn't matter because if it became public they had no way to discredit it without burning sources and methods. think about the chain of events all of this help set off. when comey held his press conference in 2016 announcing no charges against clinton he also took an extraordinary and what many people say inappropriate step of calling her extremely careless.

clinton aides are convinced her reputation was damaged with voters and she never recovered. now it probably wouldn't have happened without russian interference. talking to many officials on capitol hill elsewhere dissemination of false information is still an ongoing issue. multiple source tell us that russia is still trying to spread false information in order to cloud and confuse ongoing investigations. dana bash. let's bing in deputy editor of the weekly standard. there's a phrase, kelly, and good morning to you that stands out from dana's reporting that the validity of the information didn't matter. if it got out it would undermine if investigation. what are you hearing at least the response to this new reporting. >> amazing, people in washington, we don't feel we have any social lives any more because we have to keep up with news. seems there's breaking news

every day whether it's about jared kushner or the trump campaign and this is pretty big but it's unclear exactly what the consequences are, and, you know, director comey certainly had a difficult problem and he was a man that faced so many difficult choices and yet here's another one. it seems to me that throughout this clinton investigation and its aftermath, his main concern was to keep the fbi and the justice department's reputation and that was certainly a difficult thing and this made it a lot more difficult. you know, i'm hearing that the information was unreliable. they don't know for certain it was fake but it was a high probability but nobody knows for sure and that's one of the many thing that we don't know. >> his effort, as you say, i'm paraphrasing to preserve confidence in the process and in the fbi. but has he doesn't the opposite, potentially? >> well, you know, i think we

need to look at the wider context surrounding this. you know, maybe one of the reasons that they were concerned about this information, whether they knew it was reliable or not was because of other information that they had that even the public had and that, of course, was that famous meeting on the tarmac in arizona between attorney general loretta lynch and former president bill clinton. nobody is saying that they know that was an attempt to intimidate her or to stop the investigation but certainly bad optics. i wonder if comey had that in mind when he was thinking about what i do do about this information that says that there's possibly some emails, possibly not. so we need to look at the wider context. yeah, maybe he made a bad call on this. perhaps he was thinking about that knowledge that everybody had that kind of made it took bad. i think even without this possible russian e-mail hoax that he certainly had reason to doubt that the public would

trust the justice department on the clinton investigation. >> he has certainly cited that meeting on the tarmac in previous testimony as being the cap for him in the investigation. he'll be back on capitol hill testifying again before the senate intel committee. to what degree do you expect this new reporting will move towards the center of that testimony? >> i certainly think it will be a big part but there are so many other questions that he'll have to face. you know, he certainly has -- there's more than one issue here. there's this issue, did he act properly in closing the investigation and doing at any time way he did which was unprecedented to have a public press conference by the director of the fbi saying we don't recommend a prosecution but i'm going to say all the stuff what i think about the case. then, of course, there is the question of why he was fired by president trump and was he encouraged to drop some other matters unrelated to the clinton

e-mail investigation. so they have a lot of questions for him and some of them are directly related to his own handling of the clinton thing and some will be related to how he handled president trump. so, he's got a lot on his plate and there are republicans and democrats alike have a lot of questions that he'll have to answer and, you know, it's almost like he has more work to do now that he's been fired than when he wasn't. >> there will be questions about the memos, questions about any recording, but this could have supported the initial justification for his firing that was put out by the white house until the president came out the next day and said that he actually planned to fire him before he got that recommendation from rosenstein. thanks so much. >> thanks, victor. michael kaine son of tim kaine is now facing several misdeamnor charges. he's charged with fleeing on

foot, concealing identity in a public place and obstructing a legal process by interfering with a peace officer. the obstruction charge carries possible sentence of up to a year in prison and a fine of as much as $3,000. this coming from his arrest in march after an incident at a pro trump rally. kaine was a counter protester there, some in his group reportedly used smoke once and mace at that rally and police officers said they tried to run that group did but were caught a block away. now remember they initially denied charges but the st. paul attorney charged kaine based on further investigation. a new report connects jared kushner the president's son-in-law and senior adviser to the russian investigation and could cause more problems for a white house already in turmoil. we are live in moscow with details on the timing, and the intentions of this leak potentially. also melania trump we saw a

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welcome to saturday. happy hour right now. you're up early. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. "the washington post" reporting this morning that president trump's son-in-law jared kushner proposed secret communication channel with the kremlin that he did this at a meeting last december at trump tower. this morning the "new york times" says it was to discuss strategy in syria and policy issues. the meeting was attend by former national security adviser michael flynn we know and according to this reporting and

russia ambassador sergey kislyak. let's listen together here to what "the washington post" report who are broke this story told cnn. >> during that discussion according to kislyak's account you have jared kushner proposing the idea to have a secure private communications channel and jared actually proposes doing so at a russian facility, specifically the russian embassy in washington, which kislyak according to his reporting at home he was taken aback by that. he thought that was a bizarre suggestion. at this point it's important to say jared kushner is not a target of the probe and there are no allegations of wrongdoing here. but the fbi investigation into president trump's russia ties has been inching closer to the

white house. watch this. even though the president is overseas the controversy surrounding his connections and his campaign's possible connections to russia continue to intensify. >> president trump bragged to a russian foreign minute certificate and russian ambassador in the oval office about his firing of fbi director koem saying he leading great pressure from the russian investigation. mr. trump called comey quote crazy, a real nut job. >> the senate intelligence committee is considering whether to hold michael flynn in contempt now that the fired national security adviser said he will invoke his fifth amendment rights. >> cnn has learned president trump is expected to hire his long time attorney marc kasowitz on matters related to the russian probe. >> attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with russian officials when he applied for his security

clearance. >> russia tried to influence paul manafort on top of cnn's reporting that russia tried to do the same to the former national security adviser michael flynn. >> another major blow to president trump's immigration ban. a federal appeals court upholding the block on his second travel ban. the fbi's russian investigation reportedly now focusing on jared kushner's role during the campaign and transition, including kushner's relationship with fired national security adviser michael flynn as well as some russian contacts. we're now learning why the now fired fbi director went public to announce the investigation of hillary clinton's emails was ending. it was july of last year when james comey held that summer news conference. turn out he was worried about the russians impacting the integrity of the investigation. now this morning we are getting the first reaction from russian

officials about this report. >> cnn correspondent claire sebastian is in moscow. russia is dismissing the details of kushner's contacts in this report with ambassador kislyak. >> reporter: right. we reached out to the russian foreign ministry this morning for a comment on that "the washington post" report. they haven't denied that any contact took place to be precise. the comment we got from the foreign ministry spokesperson was simply calling this report quite mccarthyism or simply internal political squabbles. that's what she told us. i followed it up if she would confirm that moscow was aware that kushner had made that request since this was an intercept of communication between kislyak and his superiors. she would not be drawn on that.

she said if you want to learn more you should look to the middle east referring to a recent deal by saudi arabia to invest $20 billion in u.s. infrastructure, funneling that through the blackstone group an investment firm that has had ties to kushner's companies, russia very much along the line with the rhetoric trying to paint this more as evidence of internal political chaos in washington. they are keenly aware that russia is a theme that's politically tookics for trump. claire sebastian for us in rush. we'll let you know former u.s. national security adviser zbigniew brzezinski has tied. carter described him as a superb

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>> it happened so fast. ing looked like every punch i saw was actually a stab. >> he thought what he was watching was a fight. in fact what he saw was two men being stabbed to death on a commuter train in portland, oregon. >> this happened, police say, after they tried to confront a passenger who was yelling anti-muslim slurs at two other passengers. the suspect may have been targeting two young women, one of them wearing hijab. when several people tried to interevenes they were stabbed. three people were stabbed. one died. then the suspect left the train. when he got off the train i saw he was holding a knife and then he says continue to follow

me. >> i knew in that moment if i didn't follow this guy it would haunt me my entire life. >> he did follow the man and was there when police arrived. he recorded the suspect yelling at the officers. watch and listen. >> shoot me. >> you can hear he said shoot me, shoot me then. the man was arrested. police say considering his remarks hate speech following the stabbing, the council on american-islamic relations called on president trump to speak out against rising bigotry a rising violence against muslim. we'll speak with cair representative in our next hour. even while shopping in a grocery store we've seen some of these videos more and more of these racist rants seem to be happening in public. >> of course they are getting recorded on smartphones and uploaded online. what's driving it, a lot of you are asking.

can it spark a positive change. >> reporter: a series of racist rants in public. and on camera. a woman in a virginia sprint store hurled racial slur at a fellow customer. in arkansas -- >> i said excuse me. >> go back wherever you're from. >> reporter: go back to mexico is what this walmart shopper told another. she then fired an n-word at a woman looking to interject. >> stop being ignorant. [ bleep ] >> you're calling me ignorant. >> reporter: then this orlando resident captured on his phone at the airport last week. >> shut up. shut up. >> reporter: wow, unbelievable. >> i just had to document it. telling cnn he was speaking span zwroish his puerto rican mother on the phone when things got heated. >> explain what i did to you one

more time. [ bleep ] speaking stupid spanish around here when everybody else is english speaking americans. >> reporter: racist rants aren't new director at the institute for study of race and difference. >> these videos remind us that race has been a constant and persistent problem in the united states. >> reporter: there's been a spike in the number of racist rants posted on social media experts say. >> as technology becomes even more and more mainstream, and more and more people are having smartphone device, and video capability is going to be exploding more and more. >> reporter: recording these kind of confront swragss may also empower people to expose the racism. it could be a trump factor behind it all. >> people perhaps feel more emboldened to express politically incorrect points of view. but i think it's important to note that these people held

these points of view long before donald trump emerged as a public figure. >> reporter: videos may be ugly. unbelievable. but they are called a launching point for a larger conversation about race. authorities have arrested two more men in connection with this week's bombing in manchester. >> we're learning that the suicide bomber spoke with his brother in libya just 15 minutes before that blast. here's the latest numbers. 13 people have been arrested in connection with the attack. 11 still in custody. investigators are, however, still working to track down anyone who worked with the suspected bomber because they are concerned he could be part of a network that may be planning more attacks. still to come, you probably have seen this hand gesture, the first lady's swat. what message was she sending, if any. plus all that we learned about the first lady during her

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. welcome back. coming up on 11 minutes to the top of the hour. this was not only the first international trip for donald trump as president this was the first international trip for melania trump as first lady. and this week we've learned a little bit more about her. >> she seemed to be somewhat more comfortable in her role. a lot of people had that takeaway. she had some moments coming in to question just because people want to know more about her and she does seem almost "untouchable" to some degree. but then you see moments like this where she's sitting in a classroom, a place where she's so comfortable with children. something that you would think is probably going real cause for

her, something she wants to take up. she was talking to some of the sick kids there and also her moment with the pope. so let's bring in kate anderson brouwer. based on everything we've seen this week what's i think she also sort of remains an enig ma. clearly no one knew she was catholic until this meeting with the pope. she was married to donald trump in an episcopal church, their son was baptized there. she picked a school in washington, saint andrews that has 18% of the class is catholic. so you see that her, you know, true identity is coming through a little bit more. you saw a deeply moving moment there when she was visiting with the children in the hospital. she wrote a letter to the pope asking to visit the hospital. i think we're seeing a softer side of melania trump.

>> she tweeted, today's visit with his holiness with pope francis is one i will never forget. i was humbled by the honor, blessings to all. what do you make of her openness about her religion? >> i think that, you know, we saw back in february she spoke at a rally for her husband and gave the lord's prayer. i think we see now why religion is so important to her, but we don't know, for instance, if she goes to mass, we don't know anything about her catholicism. i think she wants to keep it private. this dole she and gibb and a coat valued at $51,000. >> had a lot of people riled up. that's some people's annual salary. and they're saying what is she doing wearing this coat. to that you say what? >> i think that the whole trump brand is about opulence and glamour and i don't think it will have a huge impact. the people that like him don't

mind. i think the hand swat and other things on the trip, that video of her kind of swatting away his hand, i don't think that hurts her because i think his supporters don't care, don't believe it was a real hand swat and people that don't like trump. >> here it is so i can reference, this is was some believe he was reaching for her hand and she swatted him away. this is a couple for whom we don't see a lot of affection. we saw president obama and even both of the bush couples holding hands. there was some affection we saw in them and don't see so much of that. >> that's true. we don't see it at all. look at the reagans. like you said, bushes, obamas, the fords, carters, pretty much every presidential couple in the tv era you've seen them display some public affection. interestingly enough, the kennedys didn't hold hands often, but that was a different time, they were very private

about their relationship. you see that with the trumps. this is the first first lady that hasn't lived in the white house immediately. i think they have a different marriage. they don't live together. >> this interview with the magazine about his decision to run for president gives us some insight what you're talking about, talking about she hasn't moved to the white house yet. she said in that interview i said to him you really need to think because our family life will change, the three of us will change. i know what it takes, traveling and all that stuff. if he really wanted to do that, i would support him 100%, but i would also be a mom first. i would be with our son, i would be home. is there a point where we will see a transition for her embracing her role more and help us understand the pressure she's under to do so. >> i think she's under tremendous amount of pressure. i've spoken with friends of hers that say she's moving here this summer. obviously baron is starting

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