u.s. president donald trump is pointing blame at his predecessor barack obama after a new detail reports hacking efforts by russia. rescue and recovery efforts are under way as china's president calls for an all out effort to find more than 100 villages, who have been buried in a landslide. and johnny dep apologizes for a joke about donald trump that went far. become to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, we're live in atlanta. >> and i'm george howell from

cnn headquarters. "newsroom" starts right now. donald trump is blaming the obama administration for not dealing with russian interference in last year's u.s. presidential election. >> "the washington post" reported on friday the obama white house learned of moscow's meddling in august, several months before the election. here's what president trump told fox news. >> well, i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia. even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it's an amazing thing. to me, you know, in other words, the question is, if he had the information, why didn't he do something about it? he should have done something about it. >> he did do something about. 35 russian diplomats were

expelled from the u.s. and two russian properties in the u.s. were closed in retaliation. >> our michelle kosinski has more now on the new details revealed in this "washington post" report. >> reporter: a bombshell report, startling, laying out the u.s. intelligence community's case for russia's meddling in the 2016 election. and revealing it was directly ordered by vladimir putin. "the washington post" detailing that intelligence sources had captured putin's own instructions to disrupt and discredit the presidential race, with the goal of defeating or hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trump. the cia delivered the intelligence by courier to obama in august. the post reviewed by senior obama officials revealed the frustrations now among some of them that more was not done to punish russia, quoting one, it's the hardest thing about my entire time in government to

defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about appearing to try to influence the election themselves as well as provoking russia. one official explained our primary interest in september, october was to prevent them from doing what they could do. and like a massive cyber attack on them sweeping sanctions, faced concerns and road blocks from a number of corners, former national security adviser tony blanken defends the administration. >> we we should have done different things that we didn't do. given that russia's main objective was to undermine confidence in the elections, that was one thing that motivated us to be careful of how we played this public. >> reporter: the obama administration did set the ball rolling with cyberweapons controlled remotely like digital bombs that could cripple

russia's systems. but obama left office while it was still in the planning state. the white house says trump stands by his january comment that he thinks russia was involved in the hacking. and has no plans to fire the special council overseeing the russia investigation robert mueller. despite trump in an interview expressing worry over the fired fbi director james comey. >> which is very bothsome, he's also -- >> reporter: in that same interview on fox, trump also expressed why he alluded to possibly having conversations with comey when in fact he had none. >> when he found out that i -- you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else and who knows, i think his story may have changed. you'll have to take a look at that because then he has to tell what actually takes place at the events. >> reporter: but when cnn pressed. my question is what is president

trump now doing to prevent russia from doing this again? >> this report is knew and we'll discuss it later. >> reporter: again and again. >> what is he doing specifically to try to stop this? >> alisyn, i realize that you like to sate word russia, russia. you've asked me the same question three times now. >> kellyanne, you're not answering. >> yes, i am. he's the president of the united states zmp. >> what's he said? >> he has said very clearly he wants voter integrity to be protected. >> reporter: so on the end of the investigations which is end of day friday which was supposed to be the deadline the house intelligence committee was still waiting for james comey's memos as well as any official word from the white house that they don't have recordings of the conversations between trump and comey. and as we see the investigations evolve, now the senate judiciary committee wants information from obama's former attorney general

loretta lynch to see if he may have improperly influenced the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. mish sell kosinski, cnn, washington. anderson cooper spoke with one. reporters who worked on that "washington post" story. >> and he explained what made this bombshell story so remarkable. >> what happened in this case is that the russians, according to u.s. intelligence agencies, not only were doing what they always do which is basically snooping around in the computer systems of all political parties. but in this case, they made a decision to basically take e-mails that they knew would be harmful to one side and inject them into the public. and -- shape the outcome of an election. >> and jeh johnson obama's former homeland security mentioned yesterday, it was vladimir putin himself who signed off on these.

>> in either late july or very early in august, very sensitive intelligence from a very reliable source of information. it's very rare for the cia, despite a popular perception that they have information on everything, it's very hard for them to get putin himself, him producing an instruction. that is as close to a bombshell internal coup, if you will for the intelligence service and for the cia as ever. for the cia to get this from such a reliable source of information, what is a turning point for the administration as it was trying to decide how to respond. >> so, again, that bombshell, the meddling in the election was directly ordered by mr. putin. the russian foreign ministry gave a seemingly sarcastic

response to "the washington post" report. diana magnay joins us. diana. >> hi, natalie, that's right. we asked the russian foreign ministry to comment on this "washington post" article and we got a text from a spokeswoman saying the show must go on. privately or publicly, sorry. and the kremlin, the foreign ministry have always wanted to give the impression that they're not following every twist and turn of the russia investigation. and they have in fact always used the same kind of terminology as donald trump himself to describe what is going on in the united states around the russia probe. and that is that it is a witch hunted driven by the fake news media. but i think privately, the kremlin will be extremely concerned at this report for two reasons, the first of which which we just heard from "the washington post" themselves, that there was a very reliable source of information, presumably deep within the

kremlin, that was able to -- the cia was able to determine that it had been vladimir putin himself who directly ordered this supposed election hacking. the kremlin is notoriously unleaky organization, or government body. so, you can imagine that they will be trying to find out, determine how the cia came upon that intelligence. and of course, secondly, this session that president obama initiated the program to plant digital cyber bombs in russian infrastructure. now, we don't know how far that program went. but if donald trump tweeted, yesterday, the obama administration knew far in advance of the election about election meddling by russia but did nothing, why? well, it would seem as though in fact president obama could have left a very powerful tool in his hands. >> yeah, absolutely. and now according to "the washington post" and talk here on cnn within the past couple

hours, it would be very hard to bring repercussions to russia at this stage of the game. the question is, what's next for the relations between russia and the u.s. the last we saw, they were all having a good time. at least with some russian officials in the oval office. >> well, i think each week, relations seem to deteriorate. russia was certainly hoping for far more from the trump administration which is presumably why they decided to try and back president trump rather than a president clinton. what would they have wanted from improved u.s./russia relations? well, rehabilitation on the world stage and ice lace of stations which has effectively kept russia out of the ukraine and g8 crisis and a starting effect on the russian economy

but it is clearly politically toxic for president trump to be seen to cozy up with the russians at this stage, despite that extraordinary meeting in the oval office. that is why you hear from kremlin phrases such as blaming russian folks in the u.s. congress for stymieing u.s./russia relations. i don't think you'll see an improvement anytime soon especially as new sanctions are being discussed. >> and also with every report coming out it's fake news. diana magnay, thank you. here's george. >> let's bring in stevener linger, the london bureau chief. steven, it's good to have you here. you talk about that image in the white house with the white house. and now the report described as a bombshell saying the order came from the very top, vladimir

putin ordering a campaign to disrupt and discredit the u.s. electoral process. how big of a deal is this new revelation for the present administration? >> well, i think it is a very big deal, what it does is confirm in fact what john brennan had said earlier that it had been directed from the top. i do think the correspondent put her finger on two very important responses froms the russian, they're going to try toe find the leak, first of all. and then they're going to dig through their computer systems to try to find what was buried there. so to somal degree, again, i think american intelligence will feel burned by this report, which is a very good report. but it will create all kinds of problems. and it certainly creates problems for the trump administration. you already have the senate which has imposed, trying to impose, new sanctions on russia. not about ukraine, but about other things, which i don't think the white house was really

very happy about. and you have the sense that the other branches of government, including parts of the defense department and national security council just have a stiffer, stronger view about russian meddling than the white house seems to do. i think it is also true and trump's effort to reset relations with russia which by itself was a perfectly reasonable idea has been thrown backwards. maybe it now is impossible, first, with the michael flynn revelations and now this, because trump is obviously seeing, whether he likes it or not, as the beneficiary of russian meddling which came directly from the top. >> u.s. president, we've seen him ask on fox news, basically posing the question well if his predecessor knew that this was happening, why didn't he do more? >> well, it's a perfectly legitimate question.

but, you know, one can also ask why trump is giving back the properties to the russians that obama did take away from them. the obama people say they were, i think, shocked first of all, they were slow to respond. they were afraid, a large reaction, would be seen as tampering themselves in the election, on the side of hillary clinton. but i think one thing we do need to remember, i don't think russians were trying to help trump so much as hurt hillary clinton. vladimir putin believes and said this, and i believe he means it, that he believes hillary clinton interfered in his own election, re-election in 2011. and sponsored protests against him. and interfered in the ukrainian election in the revelation at

the maidan which pulled down the russian. in his mind it means that the u.s. has interfered in elections in his sphere, so he was going to try to undermine hillary clinton. even if she won, i think his intention, and i think he expected her to win, his intention was to damage her credibility. because he felt that she would be more aggressive toward russia even than mr. obama had been. >> so a tit for tat response. let's talk about the inner thinking of the former obama white house. we're hearing from former officials that they were conflicted about whether they were able to do more. whether they should have done more. did they do enough was the question. what were your thoughts about the conflicts going on about how to respond here? >> well, i take them at their word that they were conflicted. i also take them at their word

that now they believe they should have done more. to some degree, you can argue that russian meddling through the election to donald trump, i don't think it did. i think the clinton campaign and its failures, though she won many more votes through the election to donald trump. but when you're a government, during an election campaign that's going to replace you, the sense is you really should try to be neutral. you that should let democracy play out. without the sense that the president, the sitting president, the lame duck president, is putting his or her finger on the scales. so, i think that was their concern. and i think they were also concerned not to make relations with russia worse for a new president, than they already were over ukraine. so, i have some sympathy for that. but there were arguments with the obama administration to

react much more toughly and publicly. and i think now, many of them regret that they did not do so. >> 10:16 there in the british capital. steven earlinger is the bureau chief for the north times in london. thank you for your insight. >> thank you. come up here, the chinese villa village, the latest on the landslide there. plus the battle for mosul winds down. and later, president trump seems to end a fight with james comey only to ramp up another one with robert mueller. are into that. nce. ifu but we also want more like... unlimited hbo. can i stop dying now mark? no can't do mi amigo. it's unlimited. besides you are really good at it james.

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>> hello, it's been an ongoing story here and certainly one that is go going to produce stories of tragedy moving forward. we now have the latest figures of more than 120 people missing. earlier, though, authorities were saying they had an exact number. they were saying more than 141 people were missing. so, why the numbers got revised downwards we're not sure. of course that could mean only one of two things, people were saved and brought out of the rubble. or they did find certain people living in this village as dead. we're not sure, the state producter did not say how they came to the new figures. but it is not one to be surprising if this does turn into a recovery operation at some point. because as you can see with these pictures, this is a massive landslide that took out 46 homes in a matter of seconds.

there were witnesses on the scene who spoke to state media who said it came down with an incredible sudden force. and they were able to do nothing before it happened. what's happening, rescuers, their numbers have grown throughout the day. there are really 800 people helping in the rescue operation. but they face an enormous challenge given the amount of debris. we're also told through state media reporting, that a second smaller landslide was not very far away from this one actually blocked a portion of the road. and it's making it difficult for rescue crews to get their equipment in there. it's also expected to rain over the next couple of days and you can expect this operation to last. even though there are ongoing rescue operations even though there's hope that more will be found it faces an uphill battle moving forward. >> thank you so much, matt rivers for us. such a beautiful little town where this happened. >> it's just terrible to see

what happened so quickly there. let's bring in our meteorologist derrick van damme following the conditions with more on the conditions. >> you know what makes a landslide so dangerous the fact that they can almost travel upwards of 50 miles an hour. these things pick up a lot of momentum and a lot of debris as they travel. speaking of mountainous terrain, this part of china is particularly mountainous. i did research. and it seems most of the mountains that you can see on the google earth image, this is the sichuan province. as we zoom in, you can see the riverbed and the community that has basically called home for so many years. but it's really at the base of these tall, tall mountains. you can get a bird's-eye view of what this community is, in the perspective of the river that is now blocked off. there's a mile-wide stretch that

has been completely blocked thanks to this landslide. you can see that clearly with our image here. the mountains here are just massive. so what led to this disaster? well, it's the mountains terrain and the combination of rainfall. now, there hasn't been a significant amount of rain but just enough to saturate the soil and allow for gravity to take over. that's where we see the dangerous landslide and mudslide conditions. over 150 meters of rain surrounding the sichuan province. and ultimately brought the mountain of devastation into that small village, again, in southwestern china. going forward, we anticipate more rainfall. that means the landslide threat will continue through the weekend. not to mention the rescue efforts ongoing as we speak will be hampered by the chance of rainfall. rain continues for the day today, and with the annual

monsoonal rains that continue to move farther to the north, we'll see the chance of showers and thunder continue to the weekend and next week. george, natalie. >> thank you. all of that rain there in the southwest united states burning more than one state. a massive wildfire in the state of utah has burned 33,000 acres. or 13,000. >> the fire has been going on now for a week, but it's only 5% contained. it's already destroyed nearly two dozen buildings there, wow. very sharp response coming from the united nations after isis blew up an iraqi landmark. the great mosque of al nuri in mosul. basically, they're talking about the possibility of war crimes from what happened here. right now, you're looking at exclusive drone footage obtained by cnn of the old city of mosul before and after the destruction of the historic mosque. the terror group blames washington and terrain. >> iraq's foreign minister said

when isis blew up the 800-year-old landmark, there it goes, it was making it's official announcement of their defeat. >> let's bring in nick paton walsh live in erbil iraq. >> reporter: you see from most levels here there is the cultural damage done to iraq's heritage condemned by innecessaryco. and a war crime in the past few weeks. the sheer disregard for human life shown by isis as this harrowing phase of the conflict reaches a very bloody and unfortunate climax. it shows extensive destruction, now filmed from quite distance there. and there is the dust there. and we're also seeing images from isis, part of that propaganda which we won't show

you but do show you from a ground level substantial destruction. there can be no doubt that the morph is pretty much obliterated here. and the key point here, george, is that this should have been one of the most sacred simpymbo in that tick are part of that most cherished population center in iraq. they're willing to destroy it. you showed the way the explosion rippled through the building it looks so much more like a controlled detonation than it does as isis claims had occurred. a simple glass can give you that basic idea. if they're willing to show that level of disregard for their own monuments, so to speak, but to isis ideology because this is where abu bakr abu dhabi gave his own speech to the caliphate.

if that's what they can do to the monuments, what of it for human life still caught in the old city itself? tens of thousands are kept inside that densely packed series of alleyways that is the old city that al nuri mosque formed the gateway for. some kept in huge numbers in tightly backed basements. some peering their way through gaps in the walls, running for their lives. we've seen images for children desperate for water. there's a searing heat as i'm standing in here. it will intensify the week ahead as we move into the end of the holy month of ramadan. this is potentially the most harrowing time, sadly. as we heard the agencies talk about thousands of people escaping from the old city. possibly every day. it's simply unclear. the access is relative to much of the media but we're entering the most bloody chapter for the fight for mosul. george.

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this happened in sichuan province, a village there around 6:00 in the morning local time. it's been raining in the region for several days now, we understand from our meteorologist, more rain is expected. in colombia, rebels have freed two dutch journalists abducted last monday. they were handed over to members of colombia's human rights office officials saturday. officials say the guerillas who kidnapped them are from the national rebels army. in north london hundreds of families are out of their homes this saturday. it's because firefighters say there's no way to guarantee the safety of buildings there. they're in temporary housing as tests show the cladding on their high-rise apartment buildings could be flammable. safety checks are under way across the united kingdom after last week's deadly grenfell tower fire. former obama officials say

they didn't dwoonts go public with the russian threat because it might play into russia's hands. and it was still in its planning stages when he left office. that means the decision fell to president trump. but it's unclear what became of it. here in the united states, these investigations that are under way, just a short time ago, the special counsel robert mueller, he seemed unassailable. both republicans and democrats, they basically agreed with the choice that he's an honest professional with integrity. >> but the perception on the right has changed lately starting at the top with president trump. our jeff zeleny has that. >> and by the way, other things are happening. we've done a lot. this is a big one. we have a lot of good ones coming. prosecute president trump signing a new law for the veteran affairs administration,

a rare bipartisan action in a divided washington. but the russia investigation is threatening to overshadow the president's agenda. he raised new questions about the objectivity of special council robert moouler, suggesting he's too close to fired fbi director james comey. >> he's very, very good friends with comey which is very bothsome, but he's also -- >> reporter: the president didn't had to say he interviewed mueller for the fbi post one day before the russia role in the 2013 election. >> look. there has been no obstruction, there has been no collusion, there has been leaking by comey. but there's been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that so we'll have to see. >> reporter: inside the west wing the president is growing increasingly furious about the widening russia probe. the president said he had no

regrets for what amounted to a 41-day wild goose chase in washington. >> my story didn't change. my story was always a straight story. my story was always the truth. but you'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed but i did not. >> and a smart way to make sure he stayed honest in those hearings? >> well, it wasn't very stupid. i can tell you that. >> reporter: beyond the russia investigation, the administration facing criticism from republicans and democrats the like for not speaking out in russian meddling. the u.s. intelligence committee said there's no question russia interfered. >> reality is in two or four years it's going to serve vladimir putin's interest to take down the republican party and if we aren't upset about it, we have no right to complain in the future. >> reporter: three days after saying he didn't know if russia interfered in the election, spicer said the president thinks

it was russia. >> of course, he's concerned about any country or any actor that wants to interfere. >> by saying it could have been any country and any actor, the white house is still taking the softest posture against russia from anyone in washington. from capitol hill to the intelligence communities. one earlier note at the g20 meeting in hamburg, germany that could be the first time president trump and russian president vladimir putin come face-to-face for a meeting. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >> jeff, thank you. >> the white house is calling a dispute between qatar and other gulf nations a family issue that they should work out together. doha is accusing saudi arabia, egypt, uae and bahrain of trying to limit its sovereignty, after telling khadr they would only lift sanctions if a series of demands are met. >> list includes closing the al jazeera news work, stopping the

turkish military base, reducing ties with iran. and cutting ties to terror groups. in istanbul about it, let's take a look at the reasons behind these demands and what's going on among qatar and these countries. >> well, natalie, the move to isolate qatar came suddenly and surprisingly. but, of course there is a back story to it. now, the countries led by saudi arabia say that qatar has been funding terrorism. and is funneling money to extremist groups, charges that, of course, qatar denies. but there's really a back story here which is about qatar's very active and very effective foreign policy that it's been carrying out independently without saudi arabia. and it's been very critical and very strategic in crises around the region. and it's been a conduit for

allowing conversations to happen between different proxies that don't always talk to each other. and that's been a source of great irritation for saudi arabia. because the impact of qatar's foreign policy has been much greater than how small qatar is. and this impact has really irritated saudi arabia, to the point where it is now leading this charge. and if you look at the list of demands, shutting down al jazeera, and now allows turkey to go ahead with establishing that military base in car tar. you see qatari officials saying look at these demands. they're proving what we've been saying all along that this move didn't come from terrorists to stop the money funneling to extremists but really it's making it nonindependent and apart from saudi arabia's hopes in the region. natalie. >> as you say, al jazeera was

based in car tar. al jazeera responded saying any call to close down the network is an attempt to silence freedom in the region. what is behind that? >> well, al jazeera, al jazeera arabic and al jazeera english really are at the heart of the power. it's their soft power. it's been across all of the developments across the region. and has really been a sore eye for saudi arabia. and now, these two countries, qatar and saudi arabia, don't always see eye to eye. but most of their objectives are the same. so, this really coming down on al jazeera and limiting press freedom in the region is a very bad sign for things to come, natalie. >> gul tuysuz, thank you so much. still ahead on "newsroom" at this hour, putting safety first. evacuations took place overnight in london to make sure there's

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internal cladding was not up to the a standard that we wanted. it was not fire rehartardanreta. obviously, this is very disappointing. we shared that news with our residents. on thursday night, we had a public meeting with residents that they shared a number of concerns about safety that i hadn't been aware of. >> the question is how far can this go, i spoke with a professor emeritus at the city of university of london. i asked him how this happened in the first place. >> authorities have made an risk assessment, and they decided that the firefighters co-nat cope with a fire of this magnitude and therefore decided to evacuate many of the buildings. >> just on the side here, we see inside the grenfell tower, if we could take the images because i want to talk about the cladding

on the exterior. i want you to talk about this cladding. what is the process to remove it? how difficult is it to go back to buildings, to identify which builds are affected and then strip them of this cladding? >> i think the decision of which buildings to be stripped of the cladding is straightforward. because we would know what materials were used in the buildings. and it is the case that the material is flammable, then they will decide to remove the cladding. now, the question whether it's easy to remove or not, i think it's not very difficult because these panels are not very heavy. and made of materials, so handling them is not too difficult. of course, the cladding is, say, ten-story high, then you'll have to take care that the persons removing the cladding, there has to be safety of people removing it. but i think as for the weight

being a concern, it's not heavy. to sho not be too difficult. >> we hear this from officials saying grenfell changed everything. with regard to the scope and scale of this problem, could we be talking about hospitals? could hotels be concerned about the cladding on their structures? how common is this type of cladding? and how far could it go? >> my understanding is that this cladding was used for all of the buildings, where they decided to do two things. one to improve the appearance of the building. and second, improve the insulation. i think we have seen in the past that the material was glamable. it's not the case that all the systems have that level of material. so, i think the authorityies.

>> -- >> obviously the fire in london has drawn attention to this type of cladding and now the question, certainly not only in the united kingdom but what other buildings could be affected. thank you for your time. >> you're welcome. we're going to tell you about the development of a story that stunned the united states and certainly around the world that led to a national debate on race relations. the fatal shooting of michael brown by a police officer. >> we now know brown's family will receive $1.5 million after reaching a settlement against the city of ferguson, missouri. ferguson became a flash point for unrest in 2015. that anger was exasperated when a grand jury cleared police officer darin wilson who had thought brown. now, to another police-involved shooting in united states. an ohio judge has declared a mistrial in the case against former university of cincinnati police officer ray tensing. >> tensing was charged with

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