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the president's ad hoc style. >> all of that is of major concern as the president may very well give mr. putin assurances, and that would be extremely dangerous to the national security interest. >> i think we would have a very good chance for a relationship with america and president putin. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good saturday morning to you. the summit will go on. that is the message from the white house as president trump will likely hit the links today. >> the president at golf ahead of his meeting with president putin. 12 russian intelligence officials are now facing charges of interfering in the election. >> president trump's response, i'm still the victim of a witch

hunt and i'm open to a relationship with vladimir putin. >> jeremy is in glasgow. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, the president subpoena and already tweeting here this morning in scotland. we saw him take to twitter to address for the first time the indictment, 12 russian nationals related in the campaign, the hacking in particular of democratic e-mails. the president, though, is not necessarily bemoaning the russian actions. in fact, the focus appears to be that this occurred during the president obama era. you heard the story that it took place during the obama administration, not the trump administrations. why didn't they do something more to stop this. this is the second reaction we heard from the white house. the first from the president. but yesterday, white house press secretary lindsey walters put out a statement from the white

house addressing these indictments. and she did focus, again, on the russians actions here, or russian intervention in the election. instead, it was quite a defensive statement. pointing out today's charges include no allegations of any involvement on anyone on the campaign. and this is consistent with what we have been saying all along. notable, first of all, that she's referring to the alleged hacking here. even though we do know that e-mails were indeed hacked during the 2016 election. furthermore, the focus again here is really on defending the president and his campaign from any suggestion that they were involved in any of these russian activities. all of this, of course, coming as the president prepares for his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. u.s. officials have touted this as the first of the high-level summit between the two leaders. this will be the most extensive

meeting today. so far, the president has indicated that he does plan to raise election meddling again. at the same time, the president yesterday speaking alongside the british prime minister theresa may, making it clear that he doesn't bleen the russian actions are the biggest imp impedmentes to the actions-back to you guys. >> yeah my diamond for us in glass glou. meanwhile, anti-trump protests are about to kick off in the next hour. phil black is in the city of edinburgh, what are you seeing. >> reporter: the paparazzi last night, even before he arrived

there was a big protest under way. and even bigger protest expected to begin in an hour's time. and that is also, we're going to see, the return of the trump baby balloon which was transported here overnight on a train from london.other focus of protests in scotland is turnbury where the president is saying. and we saw an extraordinary event yesterday, a pilot glider piloted by a peace activist, flew very close to the hotel there, trailing an anti-trump banner. the police say they are hunting that person because there are airspace restrictions in place, over the hotel, in order to protect the president and violating it, police say, is a criminal effect. one of the things that has annoyed some people here is the fact this is not a working visit for the president. this is essentially private time. he'll be staying at his resort,

not meeting with skoshish government officials. there are some political leaders annoyed that they feel scotland is being left with a big bill of security and protection, millions of dollar, while they say the president is merely here to play golf and check in on his business interests. >> phil black, appreciate the update. let's remember from here, from scotland, president trump going to finland for that one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> and although lawmakers are calling for the meeting to be cancelled, the white house says the summit will go on. senior correspondent matthew chance is live in helsinki do for us. matthew, the president says he will absolutely bring this up. but he says he'll firmly ask. >> reporter: right, look, this

place where the conversation is going to be hd with vladimir putin by president trump is unclear. he's always said he would bring up the issue of russian interference. and the fact is, that the kremlin and the white house speak with a single voice on this issue. they used the same language. there was a reaction from the 12 indictments last night. after the indictments were named. and they said, it is fake news. in the past, they called it a witch hunt, exactly the same term that president trump uses. and the russians, or the foreign ministry, they cast it as politically motivated. but also to undermine donald trump and divisive opponents in the united states. that's the kind of language that trump likes to hear. it's how he speaks about it himself. so, far from being a point of

confrontation between the two sides on the election meddling, it actually looks from here like something that both the presidents can agree on which is an extraordinary situation, of course. >> there was an article written in "time" magazine by a woman that we're going to talk to in a little bit, but he said at the end of the day, putin was basically already won. because in tellers terms of op plays the game better than president trump does. with that said, do the optics matter so much in russia, as much as they do around the rest of the world, or are the optics the same? does russia view the optics of the leaders the way others would when they compare the two leaders? >> reporter: you know, christi, i think the optics are important but they're not seen in the same way, if you catch my meaning. this meeting with vladimir putin is extremely important. remember, putin has been

isolated by mump of the international community over the years. from the annexation of crimea, to the shooting down of mh-17, the airliner, which, by the way, the fourth anniversary of that is just after the summit. and bashar al assad in syria, and the chemical weapons in britain. all of this has led to sanctions, condemnation from the international community. but the fact that putin is back at the top table meeting one-on-one with the president of the united states is in itself a victory. they're also going to be looking for any concessions that trump might give. and it was a few days ago, that if president putin asks it, he will stop military exercises in the ballotic the baltics. >> matthew chance, there in

helsinki, in place of that summit for monday, thank you. as the president prepares to meet with putin, he's doing that to say that 12 russians were charged in the election. we now know that the president knew the indictments were coming even when he had some interesting things to say yesterday at the podium about the indictments and about the meeting with putin. we'll talk about that. the question is should they really cancel the summit as democrats are calling them to do. we'll get to that. also, the audio of a plea to a family, a 6-year-old girl is back with her mother after a month. we've got their reunion coming up. also, it's championship weekend at world cup. we've got a live report from moscow about the title game between france and croatia, as the game dubbed, quote, the one no one wants to play in.

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minutes after the hour and president trump is facing pressure to confront vladimir putin or cancel their monday summit altogether, after 12 russian agents were charged with trying to influence the 2016 election. >> the white house says this meeting will go on, and as recently as yesterday, president trump is still calling the mueller probe a witch hunt, despite the fact that robert mueller has now brought 191 criminal charges against 32 people and 3 companies so far. >> reporter and co-author of "playbook" at politico, daniel littman, and cnn legal analyst joey jackson. gentlemen, thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> joey, first and foremost, looking at the big picture, what is the significance of these latest indictments? >> good morning. here's the reality. the significance is that it confirms -- you know, i don't know how much more you can confirm and dispute and refute any notion of a witch hunt, that

russia was just completely involved in the, you know, attacking in a cyber fashion of the system as it relates to the elections. the allegations in the indictment, christie, are very specific. these are not just people in russia who had nothing better to do, who are just saying, let me interfere one day. these are intelligence officers. and if intelligence officers are so intricately involved in hacking of the system, you know, the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional committee, you know, just in this massive cyber attack, it makes you wonder, i wonder who directed that attack and i wonder how high that official was. it comes right back to putin, in my view. and so, i really would believe that any notion of some type of witch hunt or this is nonsense, that has to be refuted. >> national security experts say this could not have gone on without putin's approval. so, with that said, daniel, when

we look ahead to monday's meeting, if president trump does not very boldly and aggressively confront president putin on this, can this meeting be even -- can it be called or characterized as successful, or would it be a failure at that point? >> yeah, you have to remember the meeting with kim jong-un in singapore, where the first few hours of coverage of that meeting was pretty positive. things seemed to be going well. and yet, we saw in the letter that kim sent a few days ago, no mention of denuclearization. and so, if trump just checks off on his, you know, list, confront putin about election hacking, and doesn't actually present the evidence to putin, and then they just move on to other topics, then that's going to be a huge headline out of this summit. and there doesn't seem to be any real agenda for this monday meeting. all russia watchers, they usually see that there's a joint

communique, and there is nothing here. so, it seems like just two leaders are catching up as old friends, almost. >> so, joey, what do the indictments tell you first of all about where mueller's investigation stands? and secondly, do you expect, as some do, more indictments to come, possibly against some americans? >> you know, i really do. having no inside information at all but just reading and evaluating what has happened so far. at the outset of this, you and victor put up the various indictments that have been made against, of course, many russian officials, in addition to the companies and americans also, but i think they're doing it systematically. and what i mean by that is that you see mueller certainly pointing to the russian involvement by virtue of the last indictment in february and how many russians were involved, by virtue of this indictment and the 12 intelligence officers. and i really and fully expect the next step to be the shoe to

drop in terms of what, if any, americans were involved, was there any collusion, et cetera. and you could note in the indictment itself, it does speak to the intelligence officers being in contact with one official who was in contact with the campaign. and so, i do otherwise anticipate that that would be the case, you know. and for finally, christi, for rudy giuliani to send out -- and i guess that he's the attorney to the president, the public relations person to the president -- but an irresponsible tweet suggesting the president's completely innocent. >> right. >> and this goes to show that it's all nonsense. i just think it's irresponsible. >> okay. daniel, real quickly, the real question at the end of the day here is what's being done to prevent the same scenario in the midterms, in 2020? any indication that the white house has any plans to try to thwart any more interference? >> so, we're relying on the department of homeland security and state election monitors and

cybersecurity people for the states to protect them, themselves. it doesn't seem like trump is going to tell putin very much to stop interfering in the midterms. and so, this is really dangerous territory for the u.s. to have a repeat of this, because it seems like russia takes it much more seriously. they see it as a cyber war, and a lot of americans are just asleep at the switch. >> all right. daniel lippman, joey jackson, appreciate both of you being with us today. thank you. >> thank you, christi. >> thank you. my next guest knows vladimir putin's plays inside and out. she authored "the putin mystique," and she knows whatever happens at this summit, putin has already won. that's her take, and i'll ask her why. mrs., a mother and daughter separated at the southern border are reunited after nearly a month apart. why their story made national headlines in the first place and where they are today.

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the 2016 presidential elections. let's take a look at what he has said over time. >> well, we'd be talking about meddling, and i will absolutely bring that up. there won't be a perry mason here, i don't think, but you never know what happens, right? but i will absolutely, firmly ask the question. >> that was president trump in the uk on friday talking about his meeting monday with vladimir putin and russia's meddling in the 2016 election. they've talked about this before, during both the g-20 meeting in germany last july and again in november at the apec summit in vietnam. after each meeting, president trump said putin sincerely denied the claims. mr. trump told reporters, every time he sees he, me says, i didn't do that. and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. well, putin may mean it, but here's what the intelligence community determined. two key findings in their january 2017 assessment -- russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s.

presidential election and that putin and the russian government aspired to help president-elect trump's election chances, when possible, by discrediting secretary clinton. in may, the top democrat and republican on the senate intelligence committee agreed with that finding. there's no ambiguity there. president trump, however, has been all over the place on putin and russian meddling. >> the cia has concluded that russia interfievened in the election to help you win the presidency. your reaction. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it's just another excuse. i don't believe it. president putin and russia put out a statement today that this fake news was indeed fake news. the united states is hacked by everybody. that includes russia and china and everybody. if russia did anything having to do with our election, i want to know about it. i think it was russia, but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people. >> no, they didn't, yes, they

did. if they did. all over the place. while his own people, his advisers and cabinet members, current and former, say there is no question. >> i am confident that the russians meddled in this election, as is the entire intelligence community. >> there's very little doubt that they have either interfered or they have attempted to interfere in a number of elections in the democracies. >> everybody knows that russia meddled in our elections. >> i think as to the question of the interference with the election, that is fairly well established. >> there is no question, underline no question, that the russian government interfered in the u.s. election last year. >> do you believe there was a comprehensive russian program, and do you believe the russians are going to come back here and elsewhere in the world to try to influence future elections? >> yeah, so, there's a pretty clear answer to this, and that's yes. >> the evidence is now really

incontrovertible and available in the public domain. >> reporter: that evidence in the public domain is included in the indictments handed down by special council robert mueller, first of 13 russians and 3 russian entities for their alleged interference, and a dozen more friday who are accused of hacking the democratic national committee. the president begrudgingly signed and implemented sanctions in retaliation, but apparently, they have not worked as a deterrent. listen to the testimony from intelligence heads earlier this year. >> we have seen russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. >> i agree with director pompeo's assessment about the likelihood of the 2018 occurrence as well. >> this is not going to change or stop. >> yes, it is not going to change, nor is it going to stop. >> reporter: every one of them, when asked if russia would meddle in the 2018 election, the answer was yes. the president was asked the same question. >> are you worried about russia trying to meddle in the midterm

election? >> no, because we'll counteract whatever they do. >> reporter: that was in march, and senate members say that states are still vulnerable. former homeland security secretary michael chertoff co-authored an op ed titled "the west still isn't prepared to stop russia meddling in our elections." the president isn't prepared to accept his own government's findings as truth. on june 28th, 538 days after the assessment by the u.s. intelligence community that russia interfered in 2016, president trump tweeted, "russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election." that's our starting point for this conversation. let's bring in cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and ara aratunyan, with the international crisis group and author of "the putin mist yeelts: inside russia's power cult. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, victor. >> general, let me start with you and the president framing his upcoming conversation on

meddling with vladimir putin as he will firmly ask. should the president not be beyond the asking phase of this specific element? >> he should be, victor, and he should also stop using the term meddling and fake news, because it's contributing to the types of attacks we're seeing. this was an information attack using cyber methods against the institutions of the united states. and every congressman, the president, and all military people take a vow, an oath to protect and defend the constitution against these kinds of attacks to maintain our security. that is not happening. he has to go beyond, if he continues to meet with president putin, he has to go beyond just discussing this matter in a f e free-flowing manner. he needs to be very pointed. but i think as you've had several other guests on, they don't seem to believe that that's going to happen. to do anything else would be irresponsible and negligent by the president of the united states. >> okay, so, one more for you before we get to you, ana.

there are several democrats who have said that the president should cancel the meeting. and john mccain, senator mccain said that if he's not going to do exactly what you just suggested, he should at least postpone it. what do you think? should she go to helsinki? >> well, i won't comment on that because that's a political matter. that needs to be decided by him. but from a military standpoint, we are countering attacks from the russian government. mr. putin specifically, i'm sure, has ordered these attacks. so, for him to go into this meeting is suspect, but depending on what he does and how he does it, is going to be critically important. >> ana, now to you. the president said that the expectations for this meeting are not especially high, but undoubtedly, putin knows what he wants out of this meeting. you wrote for "time" that no matter what they agree or do not agree upon, that much of what putin wants he's already achieved. what is that? >> well, already having summit,

already meeting with president trump is a win for putin in terms of optics, and i think in light of the latest indictments, and given trump's track record of making these statements, putin is certainly going to get a kick out of the u.s. president believing putin over his own intelligence community. >> you know, i want to put back up, we just flashed it for a moment, what senator john mccain said, just the first sentence of his statement. "president trump must be willing to confront putin from a position of strength and demonstrate that there will be a serious price to pay for his ongoing aggressions towards the united states and democracies around the world." you wrote "the putin mystique," so you know what it takes to potentially challenge vladimir putin. what does that have to look like? what does that demonstration of strength need to look like for it to be effective with vladimir putin, ana? >> well, it's very difficult to

say what we need to expect from trump. i think that looking back at how putin has behaved on the world stage and what's important for putin in terms of projecting his strength and why that's such a priority for him, putin needs to be seen -- and this is played out in his relations with past leaders -- as a world leader who in this case, unlike trump, has just simply a lot more experience on the world stage and in being a world leader. and by virtue of the fact that trump has basically made all of these contradictory statements, this just plays into putin's hands. >> general, the president thinks that he and president putin can probably, i guess, come to some agreement or make some progress on syria specifically, so let's talk about that. back in march, the president said he wanted a plan to

withdraw immediately. then he walked that back. we know that last month in his meetings with kim abdullah of jordan that he discussed the potential withdraw deal. give us your best-case/worst-case plausible outcome as it relates to syria from this meeting. >> i don't think you're going to see anything from a best-case perspective, victor. you know, the president has talked with mr. putin about these things before or has made comment about them, in terms of asking russia to withdraw, russia has promised to do so, not only from syria, but they've signed the minska accord in ukraine. it is not part of mr. putin's strategic vision to do any of these things. and you know, putin doesn't control iran. the president is going to ask for some help in getting iran out of syria. that's not going to happen. and if we just look at the history, as you just pointed out, ticking off the marks, all of these things russia has

promised before and they have basically reneged on every single one of their promises multiple times. they have a strategic objective in syria. they have a strategic objective in ukraine. and they will continue to push toward that strategic objective. >> and do you think there's some ground that can be gained from the u.s. perspective, ana, as is relates to syria on monday? >> well, that's going to be tricky, given that i think putin understands that whatever the u.s. is going to be offering russia it's going to do anyway, in terms of syria. russia, indeed, does not have -- it can't get iran out of syria. it can make statements, it can make promises, it can make agreements that it really isn't going to commit to. but again, in terms of the optics of the meeting, for putin, this is going to be enough. it's going to be enough to come

out of this with some nice agreements, with some nice optics of dialogue, and mainly, it's going to make putin look indispensable in resolving these world conflicts. so, regardless of what putin denies, what he actually commits to, it's going to be very important for him to show that he is in the middle of this solving these problems. whether he does, whether he follows through on that or not, that's a completely different issue. >> all right, anna arutunyan and general hertling, thank you both for being with us this morning. >> thank you, victor. tearful union from a migrant mother and her daughter in houston. why this mom and her daughter made national headlines in the first place. this is important for people with asthma. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body

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now, officials with the department of health and human services say they will use a streamlined vetting process to speed up the reunions. after being separated for more than a month, a migrant mother and her 6-year-old daughter were reunited early friday morning. >> this, of course, comes after weeks of this audio recording that we all listened to together here, this little girl sobbing for her family. let's listen. [ speaking foreign language ] >> cnn's gary tuchman was there for their reunion. >> reporter: 6-year-old alisson walking off her first plane ride ever. she looked out the window and wondered during her flight, played with her doll, coloring in her coloring book, getting off the plane with two social workers hours after being released from a shelter in arizona, getting ready to see the mother she was separated from one month ago. while waiting for her mom to

arrive, the two spoke by phone. [ speaking foreign language ] mother cindy telling her she and her lawyer are on a very long drive to the airport from south texas but will be there soon. after alisson was done talking to her mom, i told cindy i was on the plane with her daughter. [ speaking foreign language ] she was not scared on the plane. si? muy fuerte. you are very strong, right? at 3:00 a.m., cindy arrives at houston intercontinental airport for the reunion she's been dreaming of for a month, finally getting to hold hands with her daughter. >> yay! [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: big smiles! the little girl heard the world over on the gut-wrenching propublica audio tape back with her mother, a mother released from a detention center in texas after being approved to proceed with her asylum claim following a journey from el salvador.

cindy not even knowing where her daughter was after they were separated a little over four weeks ago. alisson says, "i missed my mommy. i was so happy to see her at the airport. i'm happy i will now see her all the time." cindy says she isn't going to take her eyes off alisson and is excited they are now in this country together. cindy says, "everyone knows the united states is a great country. it's safer. there is better education, a better health system. but most importantly, the safety for my daughter." mother and daughter will live with cindy's sister in the houston area while proceeding with her asylum claim, hoping the sadness and separation are behind them. gary tuchman, cnn, houston. >> a happy ending there. >> and so many more families that need to be reunited. >> reunited, yeah, yeah. all right, the world cup is down to two.

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-when will it end? [ ding ] itthat's why i lovel the daily fiber wfiber choice,ood alone. with the fiber found in many fruits and vegetables. fiber choice. the number one ge recommended chewable prebiotic fiber. it is championship weekend at the world cup. >> alex thomas is live from red square in moscow ahead of the title game between france and croatia tomorrow morning. how are you doing, alex? what's it like there? >> well, thanks, christi and victor. for the ninth time in its 88-year history, the fifa world cup final will be an all-european affair, but also, the biggest david and goliath the tournament has ever seen.

two decades after winning the world cup on home soil, a star-studded france team will be massive favorites to beat croatia, playing in its first ever final. it's the smallest country by population to reach the title match since uruguay back in 1950. barely more than 4 million people live in croatia. that's fewer than the state of alabama. and if croatia beat the french, it would be a bigger upset than the eagles winning the super bowl earlier this year against the patriots. no tom brady equivalent in this game, but watch out for france's keelan mbappe, the first to score the most knockout goals in a match since pele in 1958. mbappe could well be the sport's next big mega star. but even though few experts predicted croatia would get this far, they have a handful of players from the biggest and most successful clubs in europe. captain luca modric helping real madrid win the championships league, ivan rakitic part of the team that won spain's la liga, and striker mario manzucic is

with italian champions juventus. belgium and england face a playoff in st. petersburg, a match neither wants to play in after losing out on the final, but it decides the bronze metal. and harry cain and romelu lukaku could clinch the gold yeen boot the tournament's top scorer. after four weeks and 62 games, the first ever russian world cup is almost done. total attendance has been over 2.8 million people. most international visitors we've spoken to admit they've a better time here in russia than they expected to. it's been a competition full of surprises. only one game was goalless, and maybe there's just one final twist to come before the end. >> there could be, with everything that we've seen. there have been a lot of them. alex, thank you so much. still to come, fema says last year's hurricane season was unprecedented, admitting the agency was unprepared. how the agency's preparing differently for this year's storm season.

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fema is now admitting that its response to the 2017 hurricane season was "stretched at every level," calling the year unprecedented. there was a 65-page report that found the agency was drastically unprepared and underestimated the devastation hurricane maria specifically had on puerto rico. >> remember, president trump gave his administration an a-plus for its disaster response in texas, florida, and puerto rico. the epa went as far as spending more than $8,000 on challenge coins to congratulate its responders on last year's disasters and their response. cnn meteorologist allison chinchara is in the weather center with more. tell us more. just remind the people just how

devastating the 2017 season was. >> yeah, it wasn't just so much about individual storms but that it was a domino effect, okay? so, we start with harvey, which was a doozy of a storm, okay? you have to understand. top wind speeds 150 miles per hour. it was a category 4 at landfall, dumping about 60 inches of rain around the houston area. but most importantly, you look at the cost, $125 billion on this storm. that makes it the second costliest storm in history. so again, obviously, the supplies are going to be in short supply after a storm like that. and really, just a few days later, we already started to track irma as it made its way towards the u.s. coast. now, this particular storm also had some big impacts, also a category 4 at landfall, and about $50 billion. so, now you're decreasing those supplies even more. here's the thing to note about irma, okay? during irma, a lot of supplies were moved from puerto rico to the u.s. virgin islands to help

them after they were impacted by irma. little to be known that a little while later, those supplies would have been needed in puerto rico. so, all the cots, the supplies of water, tents, things like that, that were already in place in puerto rico, were moved out during irma and transitioned into the u.s. virgin islands. so, now you have maria, which wind speeds of 150 miles per hour, again a category 4 at landfall, and most importantly, cost of $90 billion, guys. that means this was the third costliest storm in history. so, victor and christi, the thing you have to understand is, this was one storm after another after another with not much time in between, but also that two out of those three storms ended up being in the top three costliest storms in history. >> and still early in this season. allison chinchara, thank you so much. >> thanks.

the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. >> you are the man suggested in this indictment. what's your answer? >> i certainly acknowledge that i was in touch with trump campaign officials. it's benign. it's innocuous. >> i think that we're being hurt very badly by the, i would call it the witch hunt. >> i've been concerned for some time that the president's ad hoc style. >> all that is of major concern that the president may very well give mr. putin certain assurances, and that would be extremely dangerous to our national security interests. >> i think that we would have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia and a very good chance, a very good relationship with president putin. ♪ this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >>