hi there. i'm brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. 9:00 p.m. in mosul, wherever you're watching around the world, thank you so much for joining us. up first, president trump set for his first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. the two leaders will meet on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in germany this week. platt been working phones, chatting up world leaders in europe, asia and the middle east ahead of the summit and will return to the white house this evening after a visit to his resort in bedminster, new jersey. cnn white house reporter kaitlyn collins joins us live from nearby bridgewater, new jersey,

and kaitlyn, is the pret expesi expected to bring up the election meddles when he meets with president putin? >> reporter: a great question and what everyone is thinking this week leading up to this g- g-20 summit in germany. little expectations, consideren k -- they're not expecting had imto say that. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster told reporters last week no format or agenda set for the meeting and knowing the president he could change his mind and decide to bring it up at the last minute. right now, little expectation he will. instead we're hearing from administration officials the president will focus on his administration what he thinks is very urgent. ukraine and syria. this on the agenda throughout most of his presidency.

in april after the assad regime conducted a chemical weapons attack on his people, the president sent 59 tomahawk 34i6 missiles to a syrian air base. >> all right. and then he's been on the phone. talking with all of these world leaders over the past couple days. who are some of the folks he is talking with and what are the issues he wants to get at with them? >> reporter: well, as you know, the president has been very active on twitter this weekend and most tweets focused on the media, attacking the media. he's resumed presidential duties since sunday night. on the phone with several gulf state leaders, the president of china, the prime minister of japan. this morning he spoke with germany and italy. we haven't gotten reouts of the calls with jergermany and italyt know last night he spoke with japan and china about the rising threat in north korea and the missile program. wants to increase pressure on

them and spoke with gulf state leaders about the ongoing dispute in qatar. >> thank you for updating us live from bridgewater, new jersey. more now on president trump's foreign policy and upcalmiupcom meeting with vladimir putin. a member of the house foreigning affairs committee joins us from jacksonville. great to join us as member of the foreign affairs committee. you heard the report from kaitlyn and there's an expectation that president trump is not going to bring up the topic of russian meddling in the u.s. election with putin. what do you think about that? >> i think that's probably exactly right. i think they'll focus on syria and the ukraine and other issues going around the country, but if it doesn't come up, blunt and straightforward as he always is. something we can count on. >> should he bring it up? >> should he? no. i don't think this is -- it's a beginning meeting with him and

vladimir putin. first time these two world leaders met personally, and i think it sets the stage for the next three and a half years of president trump's agenda. and we've got a lot to build on, and we look forward to making that a stronger relationship. >> how is that a sign of strength to not bring up the difficult topics with russia? >> i think you'll see your secretary of state and national security advisors, i think, that's a better venue for that to be brought up with strong dloem diplomacy. president trump should focus on syria, what to do when we get out of think with russia and ukraine so there's no advancement of russia going into crimea. >> doesn't the buck stop with the president on this issue, though? >> yes, it does. it always does. >> then shouldn't he talk about it? if the buck stops with him, shouldn't he be the one addressing it? >> it's going under investigation right now. let all the investigation come out and have a national policy

of what we're going to do. certainly we don't want any country meddling in our democratic process just for our country, and so we want to make sure that's adhere to, but more importantly is, you know, we need to look at why we have people breaking into our system. i think we need to put more money and emphasis on research and development so we don't have to worry about it, because countries will continue to do this the next 50 to 100 years. as long as there's competing countries, there are going to be things done like this. we should focus on research and develop to where we don't have to worry about people continuing to hack in. we know they're going to do it. >> administration officials saying the president a apt to talk about deals with russia, sanctions release, potential return of two properties in the united states, to russian control. is this something the president should be considering as this ongoing investigation continues into russia's role in meddling

in the u.s. election? >> again, i think any country that meddles, in fact, we're putting in a cyber security bill out of our office that deals with this specifically, to go after any country -- >> this issue, congressman, of asking for options from your staff, which includes giving things back to the russians, how does that send a signal to russia that this is not okay, what you did? >> i have to look at, to see what you're talking about. i haven't read that report or what they're looking to give back. i do know that we're talking about more sanctions. putting more pressure on their banking system. we've got the prize banking system in the world. everybody has to do business through our banking system. and if we start sanctioning countries as we did with china on the dang dong bank for funneling money to north korea, it has a very powerful signal that it sent to that countries. we can do the same thing with russia on interference with our

elections. and the thing -- we want to make sure that we stay ahead of the curve on research and development. so that just doesn't happen. >> to be clear, he's looking for options for sanctions relief. a want to move on and talk about a tweet the president put out. it's raising some concerns. it's a video edited. showing the president beating up a wwe wrestler with a cnn logo on his face. you've heard some of your fellow republicans. they say the tweets have gone too far. what do you think of this kind of behavior? is it demeaning to the presidency? >> oh, i just lost my earpiece. hang on. >> you did not! come on. >> i got it back. >> all right. >> is it demeaning to the presidency? it's not something i would do but he has a style and i think his style has been very effective. i don't know if he's talking about cnn because of the three producers that have left. maybe that's something that was a part of this. i do not not but i want to leave this debate between cnn and president trump and let him

handle this. he is the president of the united states and i think he'll do all right. >> so you think this may be part of his effective strategy in dealing with the media. all right. congressman ted yoho of florida, thank you so much, sir. >> you betcha. have a great day and a happy independence day. >> all right. thank you so much. you too as well. and now some more from the other side of the aisle. joining me from los angeles is california congressman ted lui on the democrat foreign relations committee. the president is leaving for a trip including the g-20 summit in germany and the president's first meeting with russian president vladimir putin. huge stakes here. administration officials say trump will talk about syria and ukraine but not not bring up this big issue of russian meddling in the u.s. election. your thoughts on that? >> president trump absolutely needs to bring up the issue of russian meddling in the u.s. elections. if he doesn't, it sends a signal of weakness to vladimir putin, and sends a message that the

u.s. somehow condones what russia did last year and that's completely not acceptable. >> you just heard what congressman yoho said. can you respond to that? he's saying there is a consideration of ampsanctions b we're hearing the president is having his staff look at options for reducing sanctions, returning these two facilities back to russian control that were taken away by the obama administration. your reaction to that? >> first start with general mcmaster's quote that cnn reported where he said that there's no specific agenda and the president is just going to talk about whatever comes to his mind. that is foreign policy malpractice. the president needs to walk in with a very specific list of demands, specific u.s. objectives and know what constitutes a win. he should not give up stuff to the russians. >> well, he's saying as well, though, he will talk specifically about ukraine, about syria. talking about those things and not talking about the other

issue of russian meddling, while seeking potential relief for russia from some of these sanctions? can you speak to that? >> sends the message the u.s. somehow condones vladimir putin's hostile attack last year on american democracy. that is not acceptable. in terms of agenda, i am pleased, if donald trump will talk about syria and ukraine. he also needs to talk about russia funding iran's military. russia needs to stop doing that. and he needs to get russia to cooperate more on the issue of north korea. >> congressman yoho was leaving the president's recent use of social media, which has been, i guess, more involved lately, i guess you could say, to the president and sort of passing on that question, but you've been critical of the president. especially on twitter. i want your take on recent tweets including the president posting a photo shop video of

him knocking down cnn at wrestlemania. >> donald trump has had a series of highly disturbing tweets, but his tweet yesterday morning was beyond inappropriate. it was suggesting violence against journalists, and that's going to increase the risk of harm to journalists. the president of the united states should never be inciting violence against any human being, i have to ask you about this, because i checked out your facebook live from last week where you talked about the health care bill and the thing that struck me was really what you were wearing. i think we actually have a picture of that, what you were wearing as you talked to people. you're wearing a trump/putin 2016 t-shirt, tweeted about the president, called him dumb as a rock. other things that i think folks would say, that's not exactly taking the high road, and i think it might fit in to the category of some of the immature discourse we've seen. i mean, as you lob these criticisms at donald trump, is

this the kind of behavior that helps add to the maturity of discourse? >> i use the term dumb as a rock because the president uses it and throwing it back at him for him to see how it i'm using it right back. >> he says he's quoting other people and speak to this t-shirt. does the same thing. that's someone else's words. you wore this t-shirt. can you speak tore that for me? >> of course. if the president of the united states does not bring up that russia meddled in u.s. elections then i believe that that t-shirt is accurate. >> did you know that at the time you are wore that? that was last week. >> i have seen enough stories that the president of the united states still thinks that russia may not have meddled in u.s. elections last year for me to wear that t-shirt, because it suggests he has this strange and bizarre relationship with russia and he needs to understand, russia is not an ally of the

united states. >> is there a more mature way to get that point across? >> certainly. i have very mature tweets and also use satire. i believe in that can point out truth in a different way than other forms and why sometimes i do it and it's too dark if you're not funny sometimes. >> it was very surprising. i will say, when i looked at that. that's what stood out to me. thank you for being with us. coming up, caught red-handed. photos of chris christie and his family hanging out on a sunny beach, stirring um quite a storm for a very unpopular governor. we'll talk to a spokesperson, next. minutes old. ♪ a baby's skin is never more delicate. ♪ what do hospitals use to wash and protect it? ♪

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murray. thanks for taking time to talk with us today. you know, looking at what governor christie has said about this, he's been pretty flip in his responses to the criticism. does he understand why many people have a problem with this? >> well let's be clear. right from the beginning. 119 miles of new jersey beaches are wide open. they're packed today. they were packed over the weekend. people are on the boardwalks from cape may north to seaside heights. >> but he's on a closed beach. >> tourism is booming. >> brian, he's on a closed beach. >> at the governor's residence. and it's one mile of beach of i believe the park is about 11 miles long. that's one state park that's closed. >> you're saying, arguing there's nor problem with this? >> no. the residence is for the govern beer to use whenever the governor wants to, and, again, all other municipal peabeaches,

private from the north to the south of new jersey are open. the public has many places to go. this was closed because of the current failure of the legislature to provide a budget for the governor to sign. if we can get a budget, he'll sign it, and we can reopen the parks. we can reopen the beaches. again, i cannot emphasize enough that the beaches are open. >> he chose -- they're not all open. you know that. he's on one of the ones closed. >> all beaches are open except island state park -- >> except for all of them. all of the beaches can't be open except for -- >> just two state beaches are closed. >> but he's on one of them. >> he's at the governor's residence. apartment the governor's residence, and on it 45 minutes. by the way, "s hhe also announc broed cast for a week about every other day he was going to be at the beach? >> why did he say i didn't get

any sun leading someone to believe he wasn't on the beach? >> he wasn't asked if he was on the beach. >> that aside, he said, i doesn't get any sun today. >> everybody knows he was on the beach. >> why did he say -- before the photos came out. >> 45 minutes on the beach, and then he got back to work. 45 minutes whip hit family. by the way, we're talking about -- >> he wasn't trying to say he wasn't on the beach? >> a politician on the beach with his family. >> okay. okay. so i will ask you this, seems -- this seems pretty clear. republicans i think who don't understand why he would do this. he's struggling with popularity in new jersey. is he just trying to lean in to that? what is the strategy here? >> the strategy is to get a budget before the governor to sign it so we can end the shut dour shutdown. the governor announced a week before he was going to be at this governor's residence, which is open for him to use, and that

he was going to join his family on friday night, saturday night and i believe last night. yes. he announced also last night he would be rejoining his family where they had planned this vacation time weeks ahead of time and it's the governor's residence. >> okay. >> provided to everyone governor, by the way, that preceded chris christie. >> he's made that clear. the government shutdown, and his choices for closures. i want to read something he said in 2013 -- >> no. excuse me. brianna, these choices for closure. the way it works is, there is no budget. there is no way to fund state operation. >> i got you. a 2013 -- >> non-essential services were cut. non-essential government services cut. >> and shut down in washington, the potential for one. he said, "i don't think it's ever good to keep the government closed when your job is to run the government."

and then he said -- the thing to do -- a time when president obama was in charge. get everyone in a room, don't leave until you get a deal with those in charge. is he not taking his own advice? >> every day he tries to convene the legislature and assembly members don't show up. every day. read our press releases. we've been putting them out just about every night and people aren't -- some are showing up, but not the key player. the speaker, in particular, of the assembly. so the governor cannot open up government until he has a spending plan. he's provided one. the democrats have provided another. he is willing to sign that one, most democrats are onboard. only the speaker of the assembly is holding it up. so -- >> shue ouldn't he be in a room with them and not on a beach? >> yes, he did get in a room with them and other democratic leaders. >> seems he's making a standard

he will no live up to. >> i will not discuss this -- the speaker said, i will not discuss it. >> all right. well, brian -- >> he is holding up his standard. happy to sign a budget, by the way, if you can convince the speaker of the assembly to send him one. he's happy to sign it. >> all right. well, he's in charge. see if he can manage that. >> by the way, all our beaches are open. >> they're not all open, brian, but nice try. >> 119 miles of beaches. 252 beaches. >> a lot aren't and we know because there are photos of the governor on one. >> that's true. >> thank you for taking the time. i want to bring in my panel. political analyst april ryan, white house correspondent and washington bureau chief for american urban radio networks. "usa today" columnist and cnn political analyst kirsten powers and rebecca berg political analyst and national political reporter for real clear politics. i'm going to let you guys take over while i untie myself from the knots that i'm now in.

i guess what i don't understand is -- the governor doesn't really seem to care about the perception. >> huh-uh. >> that actually tells us a lot. right? >> yeah. >> if he doesn't care, then where is his mind? i mean, he's not trying to make up for -- >> on the beach. >> well -- >> yeah, on the beach. >> any situation like this, a governor who cared about their political future or opinions about them in their state would say, yeah. maybe that was the wrong choice. that's not what he's doing. >> brianna, let me tell you. i listened to your back and forth with brian, and there were semantics of this. he said, that's his residence. well -- not the president -- keep calling him the president. governor christy wie was on the beach. the residence is one thing but he was on the beach that was closed. that's a different thing. there was big hypocrisy there. taxpayers are not allowed on that beach but the governor is when it is closed to everyone. >> they're not going to concede

to that. if chris christie doesn't care what people think when it's pretty cut and dry? >> the political honey badger, chris christie, governor of new jersey. if you contrast his approach now with his approach in 2013 as you mentioned with the federal government shutdown, it is striking how different he sounds. he was saying that congressional leaders needed to take action. take responsibility. now he's saying, well, you know, it's not up to me. i'm just the governor. i would chock that up to the fact, chris christie is not running for political office. in 2013, thinking maybe in 2016, i'll run for president, as he did and now term limited out. not running for office again. what does chris christie do in the future? clearly, he is not -- >> what does he do. >> thinking he's going to stay in politics. >> the kind of hurts even in the private sector.

unseemly. this kind of behavior -- yeah. at a minimum, not running for president. and we know that, but it's also, just, you would think you would at least still want to leave office without everybody hating your guts. >> yeah. >> this is the kind of thing that makes people hate politicians. >> and one of the things, too, is, what is his future in the republican party? the president kind of walked away from him during a time of transition. what is he looking for, for his future? he sat on the beach. did his his legs and arms exposed. >> got some sun is what you're saying. by my definition, he got sun as well. talk about the g-20 summit. this is such a huge meeting where the president will be going face-to-face with vladimir putin for the first time. the kremlin saying it's running out of cassius with the u.s. over expelled diplomats. the compounds seized back from russia, two of them, under president obama. but now we know that the president has asked for options, which may include lessening ankz

sanctions, may include returning those buildings. but perhaps not mentions russia meddling in the election. what's your assessment of this meeting and the success that he's set up for or not going into it? >> i mean, seems like it will look obviously to most of the world very bad, if he doesn't say anything about russia meddling in our elections. to his voters, they won't care. right? overall, it will look very bad and be interesting to see, because putin has been at this a long time. right? i mean, he knows what he's doing much more than trump does. i think it will be interesting to see how trump is, if he gets played by putin. able to actually be the art of the deal guy he claims he is. how he reacts when actually face-to-face with him >> i want to talk about what we've seen from the president on twitter lately. this morning he said this -- at some point the fake news will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success fi isis, the border and

so much else. of course, this follows the video tweeted this weekend showing him body slamming someone with the cnn logo as their face. this is it right here. what the president tweeted out. members of the administration -- what do you say -- what does that say to you? >> well, it's completely consistent for donald trump, that he would blame the media for not talking about the things that he wants us to be talking about, and at the same time not taking any responsibility for his own statements, including his tweets, which are, as sean spicer made clear, official presidential statements. they expect us, he expects us to just completely ignore the media criticism that he launches at us and then focus only on the great things that his administration is doing. it's a little bit unrealistic. >> what do you think? >> brianna, we're working hard every day to try to cover the economy that he likes to say, it's his economy, 4.3%

unemployment rate and some others say it's a residue from the obama administration. we try to cover this, but when you have these quote/unquote official tweets like sean spicer says, it takes you off for a moment. you have to deal with this, because it is news. you've never seen this pap preside. a president of the united states to low are the bar to actually tweet out something of violence, you know? it is violent. you can say i totally disagree, respectfully, with the homeland security advisers when he said he didn't see the violence in it, but it's clear. if you pummel someone, body slam them, it's violence. >> it's not just a joke, as many have said. >> it's not a joke. >> thank you all so much. great panel. >> thank you. coming up, republicans are back home after delaying a bill to repeal obamacare. where do things stand with the party's plan to replace it? if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain...

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they're actually working on. what is that? negotiations occurring behind the scenes right now. working with a conference thing, in touch with the conference figuring out the pathway forward. they left nor recess not having the 50 votes needed to move it forward or finalized proposes. but always the case, know what they want, what senators from states with vulnerable medicaid populations want. mostly more money a softer landing for major, major dramatic reforms made and know what conservatives want. how to cut back the regulatory infrastructure of the affordable care act. the question, always the case, how do you marry those two very different ideological perspectives together? if they can thread that needle in the weeks ahead they van opportunity to move it forward. if they can't, if the politics of this, looking a the approval ratings across the country, the cbo score, 22 million fewer insured by 2026, all those come together and ends up working in a poor way, it could definitely fall apart.

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iraqi forces locked in an intense battle for the final few blocks of western mosul, still under isis control, and with the city left in ruins survivors emerging from the debris, cradling children, begging for water. cnn's nick paton walsh narrates a chilling story looking at extraordinary footage of what is

left of this isis front line. >> reporter: from here to the river is all isis has left of mosul. and this is the story of how it fell. on the streets around the mosque they once held sacred but then destroyed. [ gunfire ] resilient photographer gabriel is on foot with iraqi special forces. every foot hole could hit a boobytrap. holes in just about everything. endless soot. [ gunfire ] the street empty and each human they meet is either desperate for escape or the enemy. in the alleyways, two men approached them. [ explosion ] one is carrying a bomb. they rush in to help the wounded. [ speaking in foreign language ] [ explosion ]

>> ah! >> reporter: the second man carrying a much larger device. gabriel struggles to breathe. the dust also means they can't see if there are any other bombers or wehere their three dead and other wounded colleagues lie. the advance continues up to and around the mosque. and civilians, human shields for weeks, stoop on the gunfire, or are even oblivious to it. some never leave the underground. loud, constant blasts in the darkness. [ speaking in foreign language ] unable to walk, the first man faynes ignorance but soon admits isis is on the roof and mined the entire street. the irrigator tells his team the man is himself isis.

for the past week, the desperate rush to life continued. the u.n. estimated 150,000 people were trapped here, but in the end, nobody had any idea. or how many lie least behind them in the rubble. water, water! i'm dying, she screams. her lips white. in crippling heat and panic, appropriate you never know firsts like this. or what it is like to carry your family out lifeless on a cart. this is his mother. for god's sake, help me carry him! they try running to the closest point in the narrow street a vehicle can reach. stop the blood loss, they plead. it's unclear if the boy survived. even when this tract of dust is

cleared of isis, the killing in iraq's fractured society won't stop. and her private hell of memories won't suddenly be washed away. >> nick paton walsh joins us now from erbil, iraq. not far from mosul there. here in washington, kim dozier, a cnn global affairs analyst and senior national security correspondent for "the daily beast." the iraqi government says mosul would be retaken months ago. did they greatly underestimate how strong isis was there? >> reporter: i think it's fair to say we often hear statements of ambition and bravado from the iraqi military and government but still i don't think anybody expected the kind of resistance here. a brutal set's conditions they're facing. dealing with an enemy who quite frankly want to die themselves, quite happy to cause endless destruction around themselves and uses human shields to slow

the advances of iraqi forces. iraqi forces often not as trained and struggle in coordination and communication, in a city which is second largest in iraq, where people used to live, and where isis have had about three years, certainly three years since the beginning of their announcement here and in fact the day in which the mosque, their sacred mosque liberated. three years to prepare for this assault. incredibly stark feat and one days away from at least politically being complete. >> you look at these drone photos and see what looks -- it is post-apocalyptic. just the end of nick paton walsh's piece and now the iraqis and u.s. are at odds how to move forward from this? >> reporter: yes. you speak to iraqi officials they tell you they haven't heard a good enough plan from either the united states or the

international community to help them rebuild, which they think will take billions of dollars. when you speak to folks from the american side or the international community, they say one of the things iraq has to learn is how to manage its own rebuilding process this time, and also has to prove that the money isn't going to be squandered. corruption is a real problem in iraq. just on the heels of what nick talked about in terms of how long it took to take mosul, one person who did see that it was going to take this long was general nicholson who is in charge of the u.s. advise and assist mission there. he predicted back around christmas it would take possibly through the summer to clear mosul and possibly through much of 2018 to now burn out the roughly 1,500 isis fighters left from other places and this vast area of desert between the populated areas from tec tikrit the syrian border.

>> and you hear disagreements between the u.s. and iraq and also internal fighting, right? a political fight, where the iraqi government not exactly popular in mosul even before isis took over. where does that go? >> reporter: a lot of what we see in the military operations to some degree is the packaging of the effort. and that comes to a liberated -- not the end of the task. nobody even offering that. and pockets of isis is around the country and the then what isis evolves into, which will be a low-level insurgency using sleeper cells, suicide bombers. a large part of the sunni population in iraq feels elements of sympathy to it is how they got a grip in iraqi in the first place. split between the sunni and ethnic groups, sunnis ran and now shia in charge of the government and a lot of the military as were as well.

unless that is healed and for the prime minister, doing the best he can but a huge challenge ahead. unless that rift is healaled, t violence and most importantly the reconstruction effort hampered slowed without were houses, water ux schools, electricity, exactly the kind of breeding ground that let isis get hold in the first place. >> look at this map of isis-controlled territory currently and how they've lost some over time. kim, you see that reduction. talking about general nicholson citing through next year to get the pockets through. what about syria? >> nicholson said the u.s. made a mistake the last time it tried to defeat al qaeda of iraq and it let them hide in these areas where the reconstituted. the idea, clear out all the areas in raqqa inside syria. the de facto capital, at least it once was. they have now surrounded it. u.s. allies have cut off all

exit for isis fighters inside, but a lot of the leadership already saw that coming. they've moved down the euphrates river valley to other major cities and also tried to move out of the country. while the u.s. is having great success with targeting, the wider conflict, how you're going to defeat the spread of isis through other countries, they haven't come up with that plan and probably won't introduce that until july. >> okay. all right. we'll look for that. kim dozier, thank you so much, nick paton walsh, thank you to you as well. coming up, an eerie photo taken by cnn we'll have abupdate on this case, next. e, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. there's nothing more important so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy.

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a man charged with kidnapping a visitinging chinese scholar is making his first court appearance. authorities arrested 28 years old brek christianson friday. they charged him in the disappears of yingying zhan. she disappeared -- and cnn

correspondent caylee hartung joins from you champaign, illinois. walk us through what happened in court today. >> reporter: well, brent christianson arraigned. we are just on the outskirts of university of illinois. it was a very quick proceeding today in a small but packed courtroom. among the crowd zhang's father. tlurp about 100 peek outside the courthouse in support of ying-ying. there's no plea today, and a yes i understand in response to the charge of kidnapping. if convicted, it could carry a sentence of life in prison. there's disturbing details, there's a photo from the vigil, of course, from this victim. you took this photo. there's also information about a fantasy website. tell us about these things. >> reporter: brianna, last

thursday there was a walk that the university organized for the members of the community to show their support for yingying. our crew was there. i took the photo as the crowd congregated before the walk begin. the peaked was then arrested the following day. as he was identified and his picture circulated, i was able to confirm with a university official who confirmed with campus police so at a time yes, that is the suspect that you see, just feet away from the victim's family on thursday. it was that same day that authorities, while surveying him, were able to capture him in an audio recording explaining to someone how he kidnapped zhang. police connected him to the vehicle she was last seen getting into on june 9th, and his phone revealed web sites on how to, and abduction fantasies.

the details as we continue to learn them are disturbing. they're sickening. police believe that zhnag is dead, they have evidence, but we don't know what it is, right? >> reporter: we don't know what it is. we can connect kris usage son to the car she was last seen in, to the troubling searches, and then with his presence at her vigil as well as the audio recording, the most incriminating piece of evidence, but authorities not telling us further evidence that lead them to believe she is no longer alive. that's it for me. i'm back at 5:00 p.m. for our viewers in north america, brooke baldwin is next.

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