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may have had a third contact with russians that he did not disclose and reports that he and president trump had heated exchanges after sessions recused himself from the russian probe. cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles is following this story. ryan, what are you hearing there this morning? >> reporter: good morning. this is a bit of a surprise and at this point we don't have full confirmation that this hearing will each happen. attorney general jeff sessions was supposed to appear before a senate appropriations subcommittee to discuss the justice department's budget on tuesday, but democrats were already threatening to bring up the investigation into russia and the role sessions has played so sessions decided to pull a switch and sending his agent rod rosenstein to the hearing and sessions has offered up his system to the intel committee. here is part of what he said in a letter to the committee. some member, quote, have publicly stated their intention to focus their questions on

issues into the russian interference in the 2016 election from which i are recused myself and for which the deputy attorney general appointed a special counsel. note the use of the words classified information in his letter. that could mean that sessions is expecting his system to have been in closed session. although the larry doesn't specifically state that. keep in mind, the senate intel committee currently does not plans to meet on tuesday and it may be difficult for the committee to prepare quickly enough for a hearing of this magnitude. among theish sessions may need to confront the cnn report that variations are looking into a possible third undisclosed meeting that sessions may have had with russian ambassador kislyak. the justice department

reportedly said the meeting never happened but sessions, himself, has yet to answer a specific question on the topic and to appear before the committee he would need to answer that under oath. committee members have yet to acknowledge they have received this letter. at this point, we have to wait and see if and when sessions ever appears before senators. >> very good point. ryan nobles, thank you for the clarity this morning. let's bring in errol louis, cnn commentator and professor of princeton university and another reporter. tom, let me start with you. why is this happening? is this a direct result of the fact that comey made this testimony and made things about session he has to clarify? >> i think comey's testimony last week certainly accelerated

it. not just the private testimony. the closed door testimony we found out from sources including that there may have been this possible undisclosed third meeting that they think they have found between sessions and kislyak. that is a possibly. also the public portion of that testimony before that. then you also got to remember that even before that, we knew that democratic senator, al franken and patrick leahy, member of the judiciary committee had already asked the fbi to investigate sessions for any possible contacts because of the previously undisclosed kislyak meetings. these questions have been building up already. whether or not a smart move politically or calculated on the part of the trump/russia war room team, we don't know that part yet. but it's a very interesting move and certainly comey's testimony accelerated this. >> i want to ask you, julian,

let me send this to you. we started this week with reports that sessions and trump, there is a rift there that they have been having heated conversations with president trump and even made it clear that he would be willing to step down if it's something that trump wanted. do we know how loyal is session to the president? and how candid might he be in these conversations? he was very loyal to the president. we have to remember we are talking about someone who is one of the first movers in the trump campaign from congress. one of donald trump's first big supporters from the republican party. the question is what has happened since the governance part of the trump presidency began. there are now stories, both of the contacts and the nonreported contacts, between sessions and the russians, but the other part of this story is where was jeff

sessions in this investigation? we had the stories at the beginning of the week that there are big rift between the two of them. and then during comey's testimony, he suggested a level of discomfort from sessions when he saw president trump remove everyone from the room so he could speak with comey privately and comey then said that sessions in the end left the room. i think there is multiple levels of this relationship that have opened up thu the hearings and those stories. >> errol, i know that comey made some reference to the attorney general several times. i want to play the sort of second time where he was -- this one was insinuating something and he started to reveal and then ed, of course, i can't go too far. here is the former fbi director in his testimony. >> my impression was something big is about to happen. i need to remember every single word that is spoken. and, again, i could be wrong. i'm 56 years old. i've been seeing a few thing.

my sense was the attorney general knew he shents ouldn't leaving and i don't know mr. kushner well so i think he picked up on the same thing so i knew something was about to happen that i needed to pay very close attention to. >> that is the first preference. the second he was insinuating perhaps about this third meeting that the attorney general had with members of the russian government. what i'm asking here, errol, is whose idea do you think, if he testifies, whose idea is it? is this the president forcing sessions to come out publicly or do you think sessions did this on his own? >> no. i suspect. i'm speculating and i don't want to do too much of that because already a lot of that going around. i think jeff sessions is sort of looking out for himself. when you see in major media that the president is unhappy with you and maybe wants to fire you, well, you've got to do something about it. so regardless of what internal conversation might be going on for the sake of public relations

for the justice department, for himself, the attorney general, i would think, need to sort of come forward and make clear and sort of answer directly or indirectly, even if in a closed hearing, some of what james comey said. because what you -- even just the clip you just played, i mean, it sounds very, very damming as if there is some sort of shadowy thing going on that jeff session was a part of or at least was aware of and did nothing to stop and to the extent that james comey is credible, is now public, has a story that a lot of people have heard, it's incumbent on jeff session to try to protect and defend himself and the justice department. >> i was struck by the fact that there were a number of references made about sessions. the question now, i guess, do you think that sessions might say anything regarding comey's firing? in other words, we may get a different window into this whole

rather bizarre scene? >> well, it's funny because he was not supposed to be involved, right? as we just saw in his recent letter back to congress, he has recused himself and not supposed to be involved in it and when the firing of james comey take place, his name is all over the place. right? he signs the letter blessing the entire event and then the very next day, the pre go on national television and says it was all about russia. so it wasn't supposed to go down this way. the senators, i'm sure, have some legitimate and very pressing questions about that, but martin, i hope we don't lose in all of this that there is an important question behind all of this. we talk about russian collusion but, like, what were they doing some what happened to our democracy? what happened in the election? the person who is supposed to be able to answer that question is, in fact, the head of the justice department. so hopefully, we will get some questions and some answer out of the attorney general about that as well. >> hopefully, it will also be

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his father. saying the president told him, quote. >> the president and his personal attorney denied that happened. listen to what donald trump jr. said during an interview. >> i want to get back to james comey's testimony. you suggested he didn't tell the truth in everything ed. he did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn -- or you had you hoped the flynn investigation, you could -- >> i didn't say that. >> sew lied about that? >> well, i didn't say that. >> the president never informed or substance, directed or suggested, that mr. comey stop investigating anyone, including the president never suggested that mr. comey, quote, let flynn go, closed quote. >> when he tells you to do something, guess what. there is no ambiguity in it. there is no, hey, i'm hoping.

you and i are friend. hey, i hope this happens but you got to do your job. that is what he told comey. >> you got it played out there with a sear of sound bites. our panel is back with us. let me start with julian. what is your take on how trump jr. is sort of saying what his father did? is he just coming to his father's defense or does he somehow add a bit more mud to the water here? >> well, it's the chaos versus strategy question about the trump white house, meaning the chaos is there is no war room, there no coordinated message as we have seen in scandals in the past and everyone is saying their own thing. here he is directly contradicting what the president and his attorney said. the strategy side of this is the chaos is intentional. it's to create confusion, it's to send out multiple messages and it's to somehow put appoints in congress with the investigators in a tougher position. we don't know which of these it is.

i think it is more about the chaos. and i don't think there is this coordinated war room mentality in the white house as much as different player giving their own spin without someone at the top in firm control of how to respond to this unfolding investigation. >> errol, how did you take what donald trump jr. said? >> i think julian is exactly right. i have seen enough of this and really goes all the way back to the campaign. they do not coordinate their messaging. they do not have sort of a party line. the kasowitz missed spelled the word president in the very first line of his statement and he rushed off without taking any questions. we have had reporting of him telling everybody to centralize everything through him and then he doesn't answer questions from the president. so i don't think they have a strategy here. i think there's sort of a loyal

son and that is commendable, i guess, on some human level, but beyond that, i don't think they have an answer for the many legitimate questions that are being put to this white house. >> well, let's move on to something else. the first lady, now that her son's school has come to an end, she is going to move into the white house. wend that could be as early as next week. 90 plus people are on hand to accommodate her every request and it's all under the direction of others in the white house. but here is my point. the fact that she is there now with the president, is that going to change the dynamic at all? tom? >> well, probably doesn't hurt him to have another minder with him, you know? there is always that reporting that, you know, jared and ivanka had been kind of keeping tabs on him and keeping his twitter finger off the button, so to say, and that during the week, you wouldn't see that too

much -- too many interestsing tweets from the president. then on saturdays, he would pop off a little bit. probably helps him in that regard. you know? there has been a lot of questions, more unlike the social scene of whether the trump's would become a washington family. obviously, this would seem to show that. we are a long way away from them talking about keeping another white house effectively up in manhattan. all the, you know, questions about trying to secure that. probably a natural progression here, you know. are they part of the swamp? i don't know. i don't think that, you know, that is the case here. maybe not just yet, but definitely does kind of hurt the outsider image a little bit. >> julian, this is another big week too for ivanka trump we should point out because she is about to leave these meetings this week about the work force,

we understand and bridging the gap between people who want to work and employers who want workers. what do you see her role being? how is she going to define this? >> well, look. she has been the ongoing promise within the trump campaign and administration of one of the more serious or thoughtful mind. this is an area of policy that has been a basic promise of the trump presidency. we will bring more jobs. and so the question is can ivanka be the person to finally step forward after months when we have heard really almost nothing about responding to the jobs problem in this country and offer some kind of work force plan. but at least from what we have heard so far, this is more of a set of discussions with ceos and others than a very robust set of policies that will get to the core of what is causing middle class americans to be so insecure and so anxious about

their future. but of all the different players, she is the one within the trump orbit who many opponents and supporters hope or believe can bring the most policy seriousness to this white house. >> an interesting point to be made. errol, let me ask you this then. unemployment is pretty low. and i'm wondering the message of jobs, jobs, jobs, still resonates with those who voted for the president. clearly that is what they want to do is more focus on the employment issue and less focus on russia, right? that's right. look. there are a couple of different issues within that. there is getting a job and then there is getting a decent good paying job that you can stay in and can support a family on. so we are at nearly full employment by one measure. on the other hand, if you add in the people who would rather be doing something else or aren't making quite enough money a rather serious problem.

with all respect to ivanka trump this is a problem that is going to be solved by detailed policy work, people inside the government. there are more than a dozen job training programs. this white house has talked about streamlining it and it require a tremendous amount of coordination between private industry between community colleges, the states have to get involved. there is a meeting of governors of the white house later in the week that has been scheduled. this is it's very intricate policy work and you have to have a lot of information flowing and a lot of different directions and to make it effective is going to require a very serious policy apparatus. so ivanka trump being the face of it, sure, maybe that will be nice, but we really need to see a lot of the details as well. >> very true. errol and julian and tom, always appreciate you being here. thank you. from russia with no love,

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contacts with russia and moscow's meddling in the presidential election and he could face questions over the firing of former fbi director james comey. >> meanwhile, president trump's international policy is facing new tests on two different fronts. russia's foreign minister has told his american counterpart, that is the secretary of state rex tillerson, that the u.s. need to stop bombing syria's military. in recent weeks, u.s. forces have launched three strikes on pro assad forces and occurred near iraq where they are support ago moderate rebel group. then this. three u.s. soldiers were killed in eastern afghanistan and one u.s. official says a member of the afghan military is believed to have carried out this attack. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the shooting rampage which also left a fourth u.s. soldier wounded. so let's talk about all of this. now is cnn military analyst and

retired lieutenant general mark h ertling. the troop drawdown on the u.s. how damaging could this be when it comes to the white house's consideration of deeper involvement in afghanistan? >> the first thing, martin, i'd say it's damaging, indeed, to the troops on the ground, not only because of the loss of their brothers, but also because of the loss of trust with the afghan force they are working with. you always have the potential for these kind of snergs of militants or terrorists inside of armies that are recruiting from the population. it certainly has gone down over the last couple of years as you just said. there were 44 of these kinds of green on blue attacks in 2012 and they have continued to increase in numbers since then because of, primarily, the fewer

number of u.s. soldiers but also because of some actions that soldiers take before they go on patrol with the afghan partners to make sure that risk is mitigated in this case. but it's certainly going to play a role, i'm sure, especially as mr. trump is considering placing 5,000 more soldiers in afghanistan to continue the efforts there and he has to make that decision soon. the decision he makes on the number of soldiers that -- number of u.s. soldiers that will go into afghanistan to compliment the 8,500 we have there now will certainly influence what nato does to continue to contribute to that train and advising assist operation. >> i just wanted to ask you about one detail about this attack and that is that the afghan soldier was supposedly a commando and so that tend to imply they were more trained and longer in the fight, and to be turned like that, if that was the case, i just wonder whether that detail struck you in any way. >> it did. because this was in a part of

place where the afghan counterterrorism forces are fighting. it's a contentious province. that did strike me. usually you get these kind of attack out of new recruits, the ones that have you embedded as much, the ones that come to the recruiting station and want to be a part of the afghan army. this individual, more than likely, without knowing more of the details, had more training, was accepted more by the afghan counterterrorism forces and this is a plant inside of an organization if it did incur that way. but the investigational showout, how this individual got into these of more elite force and how they were allowed to continue to train when they might have these kind of contacts. >> let's move on to syria. the u.s. role there. the russians asking the u.s. to back off of this. how seriously does the u.s. take a request like that? >> it's a continuing request,

isn't it? mr. lavrov made this request to secretary of state tillerson for the first time during their meeting in april in moscow. this is a continuing effort to get the u.s. to back out. as the fight against isis continues, as the fight against transit between syria and iraq when the fight in mosul continues to show results, you may see these continued kinds of actions because there are strikes going on against convoys, against people going in and out of syria. sometimes you may see the fact that the syrian forces under the government of assad is actually supporting some of this action. that is not going to deplete the capability of the u.s. forces to deal with these kind of things. but, again, these are the conversations that have been ongoing that show how complex this situation is in syria because mr. assad considers everyone that go against him as

a terrorist. and some of the forces the u.s. are training and advising and fighting alongside are, in fact, in that considered terrorist mode but they are actually fighting against the government of assad to try to get a little bit more representation. >> we have only got a few second left. but the real concern, of course, is that u.s. force, in some way, inadvertently or directly, come up against russian force. the like liehood of that happening does it increase or decreased over time? >> i think increased. to look on in the nuance of the russian statements they continue to say be careful, u.s. you're getting closer to assad and you've conducted a strike against his force. my take this is, unfortunately, going to be something they can call back on when something unfortunate happens where they can say, see? we told you so. when they might conduct a strike or the syrian forces might conduct a strike against u.s. force or u.s.-led forces and it could cause quite an incident. >> it would, indeed.

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its unprecedented in recently political history a sitting president with not the faintest of ties with his predecessor. >> white house advisers and form administration officials say pre tru president trump and former president obama have not met or not spoken on the phone since then but it didn't start out that way. take a look. >> my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that

ensures our president elect is successful. >> i just went to the oval office and found this wonderful letter from president obama. he was very nice to me but after that, we have had difficulties. he was very nice with me with word and when i was with him but after that, there has been no relationship. >> no relationship. so let's talk about this with errol louis, cnn political commentator and political analyst julian selzer of princeton university. does the lack of relationship affect wh what happens in the white house right now? >> i think it's important. previous presidents have communicated with their preside predecessors. in the 1960s you can hear

conversations with jfk and eisenhower and nixon and lbj as part of a pattern where the existing president draws on the expertise and experience of their predecessor. george w. bush spoke several times a year for example with bill clinton during his presidency for guidance. i think with the president who is currently so inexperienced and, in some ways, there is so much chaos in the white house, this hurts. and i also think that president trump is focused so much on continuing to attack president obama, such as his acticaticusaf wiretapping it distracts him from developing an agenda. his own. >> how realistic is it to believe these two men would have carried on, at least in a public way, some kind of relationship some very different politics and very different personal style. are we making too much of perhaps the fact they just don't necessarily have lunch every

week? >> no, no, no. not at all. in fact, i think, look. julian put his finger on it. there are past presidents who have been able to get along with their predecessors even in the case of bill clinton and george h.w. bush. >> the biggest example there. >> exactly. he defeated him. he beat him. that is not just having different politics. he went directly at him and took the man's job. in this case, i think we are not going to see anything resembling that kind of relationship because donald trump's entire political career is really based on attacking barack obama with the birther lie that was sort of the foundational sort of theme of his emergence into politics and even after getting elected, sort of throwing out this baseless accusation of being wiretapped at trump tower. one thing we know about donald trump he goes back to his base and one of the things that works

best with the base is an attack on barack obama and the more irrational of that fact the more unbelievable and fact-free attack the better for his base because it make clear it's just pure animosity and doesn't have anything to do with policies or truth. to the extent he is always going to be going back to his base, it is very, very -- not just convenient, but actually necessary for him to make his hostility to barack obama known at every possible opportunity. >> but this is what is unique about this, julian. i mean, these men are in -- they have a commonliality and very few people will ever be in, the presidency of the united states and to understand the pressure and the challenges that come with that. do you see at any point it might be necessary to soften that relationship and for president trump to reach out, maybe not to obama, but would he reach out to

the bushes or somebody else who might have some guidance for him? >> the answer is right now. i think you are correct. is there a reason that presidents, even after bitter campaigns with their opponents, do have some kind of relationship. it's not just for civility. it's practical. there are just very few people who have had the experience, a handful of understanding how to deal with the multiple challenges that the white house faces. and what is distinct about president trump is not simply the severed relationship with obama, but the severed relationship with the republican presidents, including the bush's. i do think the deeper he gets into the presidency logically you would expect some relationships to form. but i don't know if that is going to happen. if president trump continues with this style and with this attitude toward washington and toward governance, it's

conceivable he will go through the remainder of his presidency without really healing these rifts or without reaching out to his predecessors, democrat ic o republican. >> another sound bite of president trump talking about the letter he received and truly felt touched by the word that came from president obama. president trump seeming now distained or dislike of president obama. do you think that is political theater or do you think that personally he really does not like the man? >> well, for donald trump, politics is personal and the personal is political. so notice how often he talked about himself. he was very nice to me, that sort of a thing. he has said the same thing about world leaders who was nice to him personally. and that is really all it amounts to, to a certain extent. this isn't about policy or philosophy or effectiveness or anything else. but here again, to the extent

there is an underlying politics, you can't just dismiss the fact for four years -- to this day he has never renounced it -- donald trump went around saying that the president was born in kenya or he had sent investigators there. just a complete mishmash and he never backed away from it. this is who he is. one wondering if barack obama wants to spend a lot of time on the phone with donald trump at this point. >> i'm sure it goes both ways. >> that's a point there, yes. errol and julian, thank you both. gentlemen, excuse me. thank you. >> thank you. >> for your time and your insight today. we always are grateful for it. deal or no deal? the united kingdom prime minister sacks her two top advisers after was definitely a disastrous election. now theresa may's attempts to

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so call it the calm after

the storm. the united kingdom prime minister theresa may will take time to, quote, reflect after calls for her resignation and the loss of her party's majority from this week's election. >> let's go to london where cnn's melissa bell is standing by at number 10 downing street. major concerns about britain and how it's handling the european exit thing after this election and talk maybe another election coming on. then we hear about several of may's top aides kit s quit or ? >> resigned before they were fired. >> reporter: for theresa may to have any chance to fend off the leadership challenge the noises appear to grow louder with every hour that pause. the prime minister is looking ahead and it is one week from tomorrow that those brexit negotiations will start with the whole of europe looking to see whether she will be in any position to take part in those negotiation. that was what this was all

about. this catastrophic election she called seven week ago looking at the time as if she were in a position to allow her to go into the negotiations from a position of strength. now whether she will be in power the question that is being asked today in downing street and elsewhere in the united kingdom. she has two thing she need to do and the clock is ticking. first of all, she has to conclude some key negotiation with unionists to hope to form a minority government in time for the queen's speech a week on monday. she also has to fend off those growing calls for another leader perhaps to take over the conservative party and the british press is pull full of them this morning and those are the things she is having to balance at the same time and as quickly as she can. within of the last couple of hour, the leading conservative, former chancellor described her as a dead woman walking. george osborne said a matter of

deciding how long she decide to stay on death row and gives her a positioning this afternoon. >> a time we thought she could be in power for year and it looks like down to months, if that. melissa bell, thank you. staying in europe here. you got to how this kick boxing fight ended in paris. andy scholes has a video for us here. >> the number one fighting in fighting is you don't drop the guard and unfortunately one fighter learned the hard way and that punch was not the end of the fire. more coming up in this morning's "bleacher report." (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything,

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it is not easy winning the triple crown and the sec yeond r

in a row we have three horses with kind of a crown. >> they have pieces of it, i suppose. >> three different horses winning each leg of the triple crown second straight year and yesterday's belmont stakes lacked some star power. the kentucky derby winner and preakness winner not racing so a wide open field. in the end tapwrit wins. looked like he had the lead and comes around the last turn and tapwrit rallying to win by two lengths. the belmont a victory for jose ortiz. his brother won last year. one-eyed third patch took third place. the first four finishers all ran in the derby and skipped the preakness and came back fresh for the belmont so that might be the secret to success there. i'm going out on a limb speaking of derbies and say

yankees rookie aaron judge will be in the home run derby next month. this hit was clocked as the hardest hit ball ever. it came off his bat at 121 miles an hour. they just started tracking exit velocity just a few years ago. so maybe not that impressive but the bomb definitely set the tone for the yankees. they would pound the orioles 16-3 last night. stop what you're doing and watch this. a kick baoxing event in paris. he turns around and walks away but the opponent says the fight is still going and clobbers him from behind and knocks him out! get this. some of the fans in the stand didn't like it and run into the ring to attack him in the corner. one landed a punch that may have broken bruhart's jaw. about the knockout punch was not illegal but it was not very nice. i'm guessing brunhart's

objective was not to be be nice. mission accomplished! >> i haven't seen anybody jump from the stands into the ring. i mean, the guys are special boxers so you better be good and physical! >> he kind of just went -- but to his credit, didn't fight the fans back. he kind of just -- >> fought them off. >> andy, thank you so much. >> have a good one, guys. attorney general jeff sessions will testify before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. >> there remain a number of questions about his own interactions with the russians. >> with a third meeting and even without it, what we have is a partner pattern of contacts with the russians. >> the white house cannot say whether president trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions. >> a claim of responsibility for the deaths of three american soldiers in afghanistan. >> the afghan taliban is claiming responsibility. this is what we call a