this. he basically dismissed his economic adviser over this issue. i think this is the one place where i don't see him backing down any time soon. >> it's a fascinating test as we go forward. new deadlines tonight at midnight. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." jim sciutto is in for wolf. he starts right now. have a great day. hello, i'm jim sciutto in for wolf liblitzer. thanks so much for joining us today. where are the children? with hours to go until the deadline, pressure is mounting on the trump administration to reunite immigrant children and their parents as they resort to dna tests to identify who belongs to whom. down to the wire as the president narrows his list of supreme court favorites. a new push by conservatives against some of those on his short list. and he may have just been thinking out loud, but president trump's question about invading

venezuela is sparking a forceful response and even put an army on high alert. we begin with breaking news. with deadlines on family reunification looming, the trump administration is now saying that still as many as 3,000 immigrant children remain separated from their parents, but they do say they are working hard to comply with court orders to reunite those families and that they plan to meet those deadlines as much as they can. hhs secretary alex azar says that even under these circumstances, the administration wants to treat people as humanly as possible. the president tweeted, law enforcement at the border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. when people with or without children enter our country, they must be told to leave without our country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. tell the people out and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your

front lawn. cnn's senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is at the white house. jeff, looking at these numbers here, it looks like the administration has made no progress. in fact, there might be some back slipping here on how many children are still being held away from their parents. >> jim, that certainly has been the question all week long. what are the numbers here? how many people is this administration talking about? those numbers have been impossible to find because they, quite frankly, have not been answering the questions. just a short time ago, there was a press briefing on this. there were the numbers you just said. 3,000 is the estimate here. the number of children under the age of 5 is around 100 or so. but that is no movement. the fact is the deadline is coming up for reunifying the families and children under the age of 5 by the 26th of july. no sense of how this is going to

happen, when this is happening. talk of dna being used to link parents and children. i'm not sure this cleared anything up here. it certainly did not show there's been progress in terms of reunifying these children and their parents. we are weeks after the president signed that executive order, jim. >> that's right. the last number that hhs gave was 2,047. now they say possibly 3,000 or around 3,000. >> yes, it's an approximate number. it could be more than that. we simply do not know. that was a ballpark figure. you think there would be a precise head count here. these are people we're talking about, after all. >> and some of them kids. apparently 100 children under the age of 5. the other big step looming for this white house, the agenda for president trump's summit with president vladimir putin. tell us what you're hearing there. >> this certainly is going to be something that's on the president's schedule coming up.

we heard from a couple senior administration officials just a short time ago this morning on some of the agenda items for that meeting that's going to be in helsinki a week from monday, on the 17th of this month. they are going to be talking about arms control. they are going to be talking about syria. the question always, jim, as you well know s russian meddling going to be a central part of the conversation of the dialogue between the u.s. president and the russian president. up until now, the u.s. president, president trump, has rarely, if ever, acknowledged the extent of meddling in the election that all u.s. intelligence agencies agree upon, but senior administration officials were telling reporters a short time ago that russian meddling will be one topic of discussion. time and time again, whether it was at their first meeting at the g20 summit meeting or last fall in vietnam when president putin and president trump met briefly on the sidelines of the apec summit, they've never fully

addressed in a fulsome way russian meddling in the elections. i think there's little reason to believe they will again. the president simply wants to overlook that fact, but administration officials say it will be at least one of the topics but certainly not the topic. syria, arms control at the top of the list. >> what keind of topic will it e if just last week the president doubted russian interference. jim, thanks. the first of three court ordered deadlines for those children separated a the border is tomorrow. the youngest of the children must be reunited with their parents by next tuesday. joining me now is nia malika henderson, as well as cnn political analyst eliana johnson and juli davis. looking at these numbers here, it's in the numbers. 2,047 was the number hhs gave last week. now they say 3,000.

looks like there are more children in custody today than before. >> it certainly sounds like they're headed in the wrong direction. it's hard to know because they haven't been giving consistent numbers. we don't know how accurate the counts they have are or the counts they're giving to the public. that 2,047 they put out last week, that represented six children having been reunited with their families since the president had signed his executive order. this is obviously a much slower process than anyone wants to see. certainly now that they're facing a court deadline next week for these youngest of children to be reunited, it's hard to imagine how they get from a half dozen to a hundred in the space of a few days. the fact they're now looking at dna does tell you they were not prepared to have to do this. they obviously don't have another way of tracking who these children are related to and how to get them back with their families. they're really having to play catch up. obviously the numbers speak for themselves. they're not able to do it. >> it's interesting. often the president will tweet

out alternate explanations for things. in that tweet where the president is trying to turn the focus back on the families, don't come to the border with your children, comparing it to someone standing on your front lawn. politically, this issue had somewhat turned through the president's efforts and democrats' efforts of this idea of abolishing i.c.e. does this turn the focus back to the situation with those kids at the border? >> i think we have to see it certainly as we approach this july 26th deadline. i think more and more focus is going to come to what are the numbers. but i think the president was put on the defensive when he signed that executive order because his base didn't want him to do it. yet, there was enormous political and media pressure on him to do that. you saw increasingly aggressive tweets from him about how strong he is on border policy. so the administration was sending out inconsistent messages, but what i think we've seen since the signing of that order is sort of a return to the

strategic and policy ambiguity from the administration and lack of transparency in terms of numbers and exactly what is happening on the border. >> right. and nia malika, it seems to expose here, despite whatever pr efforts the administration is attempting, that there was no hard plan for reunification when the president issued that order. >> right. the plan was for this separation, right. because we heard from sessions and we heard from kelly that this was what was going to happen. that kids might end up in foster care, as has happened. but there was no database set up. there was no tracking system. there was no estimation as to how many children they might expect to come across the border with their parents. now we have a real patchwork of systems in place here. some kids might be in new york. their parents might be in another state. some kids are in foster care. some kids are in shelters. now you have sort of faith organizations and nonprofits stepping in to really try to

figure out how to reunite these kids. it really shows incompetence by this white house and by this administration. >> the fact there's no plan for reunification means there was no plan for the implementation of the zero tolerance policy, which i think is even more shocking since the administration was in full force behind that. zwl >> it also shows, does it not, that it really wasn't a priority. this is a policy instituted intentionally by this administrati administration. presumably if you cared, you would have had some process in place. >> they talk about the power of deterrence and how people have to know they're going to face consequences if they enter the country illegally. that was the whole point of having the zero tolerance policy in effect and the whole point of telling people f y, if you brin your children, you could get separated, but you would have thought if that were the objective, they would have had a plan in place to say, okay, well, if you're willing to go home, if you're willing to abide by the laws, you're going to be

reunited with your family. now to eliana's point, they're sort of in the worst of both worlds. not only did his base not want him to sign that order, the president himself was e areluct to sign that order. it actually hasn't had any effect. he's had to walk back the policy, and he hasn't been able to reverse the negative effects. it's a tough spot. >> this is, is it not, the way things play out under trump, right? as i hear you talking about that, i was covering north korea, it reminds me, you have things thrown out there, get the summit together, but there were no specifics about what was actually going to be agreed to. you you're trying to clean that up. you see this pattern with a whole host of issues, foreign and domestic, with this administration. >> i think it's particularly acute in the immigration policymaking process. at politico, we wrote a piece about presidential adviser stephen miller. he's hosted sort of secretive

immigration policy meetings. the government agencies are caught unawares. i think that injects sort of chaotic and confusing aspects, particularly into the realm of immigration. >> and tough on kids. it's 3,000 kids, for crying out loud. i know that the president calculates there's a political advantage here, but the hhs said today, a hundred of those kids are under 5 years old. so they're sitting there in some random border post or somewhere else around the country, and they still haven't been able to talk to their parents. >> some of them probably can't talk to their parents because they're 2 years old or 9 months old. so they're having to resort to these dna testing to figure out who these kids are, who their parents are. it really is a nightmare scenario for this white house, and republicans certainly are feeling that. likely a lot of those folks are back home in their states, hearing from constituents about this. polls are showing most americans think this is an inhumane process that's going on.

and it is a humanitarian crisis of this administration's own making. there's no amount of spin that can get out of this. he sort of can't declare victory at this point because there are humans involved in various places. >> little humans. i want to get your reaction. we have some news from the white house. the white house officially announcing now that it has hired the former fox news executive bill schein as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications. he was ousted from fox for his handling of the network's sexual harassment scandal, a series of them. he himself a protege of the late roger ailes, who was pushed out for his own involvement. reaction? evidence of the increased symbiotic relationship between fox news and this administration? >> well, yes, that, but also i think that we've come to see that the president really wants people around him who he knows and feels like get him and he gets them.

this is clearly an example of that. there's obviously been quite a bit of flux with the communications staff. there's been displeasure between the president and john kelly, his chief of staff, and i think there's a real sense that they need someone in there who can talk directly to the president or at least the president feels that way. it seems like bill shine is going to be that person. it remains to be seen how that's going to affect the rest of the communications structure, which has been a bit dysfunctional. >> there's still been no hope hicks replacement. sounds like bill shine has a communications role, but he's not the communications director. i suppose you could say the president is the dmun kagcommun director. >> that's the thing. as you said, this is donald trump. he's his own communications adviser now. he's got someone there in bill shine who's only going to amplify a lot of those i think stin -- instincts he displays all over twitter. >> he has a history of producing images that ignites the

president's base. this also underscores the power, i think, of sean hannity. bill shine was hannity's first producer. they're the best of friends. i do think this will only strengthen, really, the links between the white house and fox news, something that's really unprecedented, i think, in modern history. >> and sean hannity and the president, we know, speak frequently. thanks to all of you. we have a lot more news coming up. he may not have been thinking outloud, but president trump's question about, yes, invading venezuela, a country, puts an army there on high alert. plus, an alarming development in the uk. we're told that a couple that has been poisoned by the very same russian nerve agent used in the previous attack on a former russian spy inside the uk, now we're learning whether they knew each other and what it is that might have exposed them to this substance. ♪

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hiring more prosecutors to look into possible collusion and obstruction of justice by president trump and his associates during the presidential campaign and the transition. mueller has started tapping additional justice department resources, including career prosecutors and fbi agents. bloomberg says the new hires could be a sign that mueller plans to eventually hand off some of his investigations as the overall probe expands. i want to get more insight on all this from someone who's been part of an investigation like this before. a former watergate special prosecutor. richard, he's already got a lot of investigative threads to look at regarding the president and manafort. now hiring more prosecutors. what does that say to you? >> well, this is a target-rich environment for any prosecutor, and he has dealt out to the southern district of new york

and other places from time to time pieces of the investigation. he has only, i think, 17 full-time lawyers on his staff, which is very thin for the amount of work that he's got in front of him. and so having assigned and delegated individuals who are at justice, who can be using to him in pursuing leads is a logical consequence of all he's got on his table. >> so with the southern district in new york in michael cohen's case, it looked like he farmed out there. you have possible criminal activity related to taxi licenses, et cetera, things that wouldn't naturally be his focus under the russia investigation. with these hires, does that look like to you stuff that he wants to -- that he sees as under his umbrella or stuff he might want to say, hey, you take a look at this, not really relevant to the

central focus of in investigation. >> on the one hand, he has two trials coming up this summer for manafort. one in alexandria and the other in the district of columbia. while his resources are drained to take care of those two trials, he still has ongoing investigative needs. it is entirely logical that he would seek to supplement what resources he has with available people from the department of justice or the u.s. attorney's office. he's drawn upon the southern district, the eastern district, and experienced prosecutors from the department of justice in staffing his needs. what he's wound up with is a meritocracy of highly experienced, capable, nonpartisan individuals who have demonstrated their b ability time after time over decades. >> that's the thing.

the president of course has called moo called mueller and his whole team a bunch of closet democrats. you go into the department of justice, career prosecutors, to tap these folks. certainly seems to undermine the president's argument. >> of course it does. and it's right out of the same nixon playbook. he did the same thing with the watergate staff, with no evidence of any political bias. it's just one of the things they do. another thing they will do is squawk about the amount of money that has been expended in connection with the investigation. it's just par for the course. >> final quick question. as you see mueller hire more prosecutors in this parlor game of when will he finish, wrap this up, is this an indication to you it's close end toing or that there's a long way to go? >> well, i think there are steps that need to be taken. you have to see who's going to cooperate and what additional

information any such cooperation brings to the table. >> but any sense this is going to wrap up tomorrow? >> i have the sense that by the end of the summer we'll see a report and see some additional indictments. >> we'll certainly be watching. thanks very much. coming up, reports that president trump once floated the idea of invading venezuela has now reached that country's president. what he's telling his army to do in response. and as the soccer team trapped inside a cave gets a crash course in scuba diving, hear why some of the boys there are really just not close to being able to get out.

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nicolas meduro warned his arm forces at the possibility of the u.s. leading a military invasion of venezuela just last year. to discuss this, i want to bring in the vice president of the america society and the council of the americas. so, you know, one issue here is that this is kind of doing a favor for the venezuelan leader, right, to create this idea of a foreign menace who's ready to storm the gates. >> certainly one way to look at it. the regime has certainly taken advantage of that as well. every time the united states says or does something that's perceived to be against the regime in power in caracas, they use that for propaganda purposes to say the imperialists are coming, they're trying to take us over. we need to ral ily against that threat. it has played in that way. >> so beyond raising this with his senior aides, and apparently surprising them, h.r. mcmaster at the time saying, no, we really can't do this, the president also called up some foreign leaders, latin american leaders, and spoke about this

idea. when they hear that from the u.s. president, do they take it seriously? >> well, they have to take it seriously because it's the u.s. president, and the united states exercises a very large voice in latin america, even to this day. he raised it with some leaders at the united nations general assembly last september where he met with a number of them from latin america. but the news was not necessarily that the president raised it, it was that the leaders one by one knocked it down and said now's not the time to be thinking about that. that's not the right approach. we have a regional approach to this issue. it is a crisis. we understand that. but we have to work together and the military action would be counterproductive under the current circumstances. >> well, maybe the president listened to them then. the situation on the ground in venezuela, still very messy. what positive role could the u.s. have there? >> it's a terrible situation. venezuela used to be the wealthiest country in latin america. today some of its citizens have literally starving. there's hyperinflation.

the health care system is in a state of collapse. it's not going to get better with the current regime in place. that's the dilemma. in terms of the positive, what can the united states and others do, well, there's a huge humanitarian crisis that has developed thanks to the regime in venezuela, it must be said. the regime will not allow humanitarian assistance to come into venezuela. that's a shame, and it needs to be reversed. many people have called for that. in the meantime, many venezuelans are actually leaving venezuela. they're going into colombia, into brazil, into the caribbean islands, which just don't have the capacity to absorb them. so humanitarian assistance, health care, and continually bringing this to the attention of the international community is important. >> but perhaps not invasion. >> well, that's a different approach. that's for sure. but one additional thing that could be done is taking recommendations from the organization of american states and submitting it to the international criminal court, which would bring potentially leaders of the regime subject to international law. >> eric farnsworth, thanks very much. coming up, the border

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reunification looming, the trump administration now says it still has as many as 3,000 immigrant children remaining separated from their parents. it's still unclear how many have been reunified. a federal official tells cnn that cheek swabs are being conducted to collect dna to confirm parents' identities and reconnect children with their parents. our next guest is representing five families who have been detained by the u.s. government and have their children separated from them. sophia gregg is an attorney with the legal aid justice center. so five families, separated at the border. what's happening now? the president signed this executive order. his aides are saying they're carrying these out. are you seeing any efforts to bring those families together with their kids? >> well, a few weeks ago when i was down in port isabel, texas, we did not see very much of that being done in terms of a plan to

reunify parents with their child. after the congressional delegations and with the news media putting this really at the forefront, we have seen some measures being taken. right now some of those measures that are being taken actually make advocates take pause. you mentioned the dna testing. we're hearing from my clients and others that they are seeing orr personnel cheek swab or take dna for testing to help the reunification process. >> is there a credible argument for that? are they saying they want to make sure that if i'm going to reunite this child with this parent, who claim to be their parent, i want to know they're connected via dna, that they're actually related to each other? >> at this magnitude and at this level, it is not necessary. this is a problem that the government created for itself when it separated parents from their children without so much as giving the parent a receipt

that this child is theirs or vice versa for the children. just like they would when they are apprehended by border patrol and they take their backpack or their possessions from them. they're given a receipt that the u.s. government has their property. they failed to do this with the basic step with the children and the parents, which shows that the government essentially believes that there's a greater value in property than they do for the families. >> when they separated, there was no paper trail so that a parent knew where the child was going to be once they were separated or even that the government knew? >> there were in some cases we have seen that parents are children might be listed on each of their corresponding case files or the charging document. some cases, yes. some cases, no. this is where you get the problem where the government feels they have to dna test over 2,000 and now what they're

saying is under 3,000 parents and children, which from an advocate's perspective is extremely invasive and completely unnecessary, especially given the fact that a lot of the children who are over 5 years old are verbal. they can speak. they have identify who is their parent, and that can be confirmed by the parent. there's no need to go the extra mile and start dna testing over 2,000. >> it appears that the hhs is clearly having trouble carrying out this executive order. the numbers seem to have gone up. it was 2,047 last week. now it's around 3,000. sounds like they're not certain of the number, not willing to tell us how many children remain separated. does it indicate to you that there is no clear plan for getting these families back together with their kids? >> there's no clear plan. there hasn't been a clear plan from the beginning. like we were speaking before, i really don't think that the government ever intended to reunify these parents and

children. they labeled children who came across the border with parents as unaccompanied. a label that's only for children that are without parents as they cross over the border and are apprehended. >> even if these families came across with the child, they labeled them from that moment as if those children did not belong with them or were not accompanied by those parents. >> exactly. they're essentially labeled as being somewhat orphans when they came across the border with no parent. especially with a parent that's detained and a child that's detained, they don't know who belongs to who. this issue is just now they're in a sort of chaotic crisis because they can't figure out how to fix the problem they themselves created. >> well, that seems to be in the numbers there because they're having trouble getting those families back with their kids. sophia gregg, thanks so much for taking the time. >> thank you. coming up, an international mystery involving espionage accusations and fear. how did a british couple become

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well, just moments ago, we learned new details about the case of a british couple poisoned with a russian nerve agent. police say the two people were exposed to it after apparently handling a contaminated item.

it's the same agent used to poison an ex-russian spy and husband daughter in march in salisbury. let's talk more about this with a chemical weapons specialist, david butler. he's joining me from blackpool, england. this is quite a mystery here because the spy and his daughter appeared to be intentional targets. he was a turncoat, a russian spy who changed sides in effect. now you have this couple here who seem to be accidently poisoned by this. how could this have happened? >> and i think that's a very good analysis, jim, in that these two people are definitely unconnected with the attempted assassination. they just happened to be in an area which wasn't previously visited. a lot of people think that this is an area that they went to,

this queen elizabeth park. they didn't go there at all on the day that they were -- the assassination was attempted on them. this is a completely separate area, but only about half a mile from where the bench was, where they collapsed. one is a drug addict. the other is an alcoholic. the queen elizabeth park in salisbury, for better reasons or not, is a known place where drug addicts go to get their fixes. >> so let's try to figure this out, almost like a mystery, right. so let's assume the couple not connected to russia or these russian spies, which is the way it looks. if you were carrying out an assassination attempt with this agent, is it possible you might have dropped something on the way or leave behind some sort of

container that then someone even weeks or months later could pick up and get contaminated by it? >> well, you know, that's almost unthinkable. a professional assassination team working on behalf of a state-sponsored event, it's unthinkable they could be that clumsy to do that sort of thing, to leave something. and let's face it, it was like 3 1/2 hours after the skripals were supposedly contaminated that they actually fell ill on the bench. so whoever did it to them had about three or four hours to escape. it wasn't like they were being chased by the police and threw something in a bush or something. >> well, how about just the science. does this substance, novichok, if it's sitting in the open air or some container, could it last? would it still be deadly and dangerous some three, almost four months later? because the poisoning of the

skripals took place in march. >> yeah, my assessment of that is knowing nerve agents and having worked them for real, both in liquid and vapor form, in my experience, you know, left out in the open, the elements will have an effect on an agent. it will decay over a certain period of time. so my inclination at the moment is to lean towards the fact it was either soaked into something or it was in a container. >> do you have to touch it? you can't inhale it? you have to physically touch it? >> yeah, in this particular case. because the assessment is it's a thickened agent, you'd have to physically touch it or come into contact with it with your skin. i don't believe that this particular one was inhaleable because it was thickened. therefore, it would have been

something that could have been a consistency like shaving foam or something like that, that might have been used. >> well, regardless, it shows you just the dangers to more than the target if some sort of assassination attempt with this kind of chemical weapon is used on foreign soil. david butler, thanks so much for breakin ser. well now to thailand and the latest efforts to rescue those 12 boys and their soccer coach now trapped almost two weeks now in a cave. monsoon rains could start again at any moment filling that cave with water. medical teams have assessed that it is still too dangerous at this point to move the boys out. it is an 11-hour roundtrip for even the world's most experienced divers, that time will be much longer with children who don't know how to do it. a rendezvous with kim

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secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way back to north korea right now as pompeo heads to pyongyang for his third meeting with north korean officials. the state department saying it will not back off the u.s. policy of maximum pressure as questions swirl around kim jong-un's actual commitment to denuclearizing. he negotiated with north koreans going back to the '90s, daniel russell, thank you for joining us. has north korea taken any concrete steps towards

denuclearization to substantiate the president's claim that the nuclear threat is gone? >> you can't point to anything the north koreans have done to indicate that the threat has diminished, let alone disappeared and that lends to the hu -- you mentioned maximum pressure, the best we can hope for now is minimum pressure, because the implementation of sanctions by china is what matters and china's already shown that they're letting the spigot get turned back on, the sanctions are on the book, but the implementation is gone, on the defense side as well, deterrence has taken a few steps backwards, the president has given away our annual exercises. he announced that he wants to

withdraw u.s. forces from korea, that's a dream come true for the north koreans. so this is a tough way to begin what in the best of circumstances is a tough mission, negotiating with the north koreans. >> i hear two competing views, one -- and you saw the defense intelligence agency, we know they have assessed that kim jong-un has no intention of denuclearizing, and you hear this from some chinese diplomats. but others say kim has changed his view, changed his calculation, that maybe he does need to give these up because his economic survival is at stake. do you believe that that's possible? >> that's the proposition clearly that we have to put to the test. and i think that for secretary pompeo, going to pyongyang, the first two critical litmus tests that he can apply are number

one, will north korea expand the self-declared freeze, which right now is only an agreement not to actually conduct a nuclear test, a detonation or intercontinental ballistic missile tests. so would north korea agree to generally freeze the entire programs while talk are under way. and secondly, most importantly, will north korea make what's called a declaration? will they put down on paper what their nuclear facilities are, where they are, how much fissile material, how many nuclear weapons, what are their ballistic missile sights and so on. will they tell us what they have got. because that's the beginning of the possibility of negotiations, if we don't even know or can't even get them to describe what

they they have, how are we going to convince them to give it up. >> the u.s. did not even walk away with an accounting of what north korea, that would been the givening baseline to attempt to get them to give up those weapons. >> it just goes to show what a challenge secretary pompeo faces. in the run up to that singapore summit, the negotiators who met in pyongyang, gave the north koreans a very robust list of things that north korea had to do, should be incorporated in the singapore statement, things that the u.s. has always asked for, beginning with and including the infamous akrcrona complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.

there's been no firm commitments. maybe 50% on the nuclear side that north korea has already made back in 2005. >> well, we're going to keep watching it, daniel russell, you know a thing or two about north korea. thank you for joining us. that's it for me, jim sh. the news continues right now. hi, everyone, i'm brook baldwin, here's what's new this afternoon, the trump administration's effort to reunite children with their parents at the mexican border. the troubled process, and answering multiple burning questions with the court deadline looming, questions like how many children have been reunified and how many are still detain