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. >> good saturday to you.

president trump is now reacting to those indictments that came down from the department of justice yesterday, and he is going after president obama, not the 12 russian intel agents charged with interfering in the 2016 u.s. election. >> yeah, right now, the president's in scotland. and on twitter, ahead of his controversial summit with russian president vladimir putin on monday. now, the president last hour touted that meeting before he apparently hit the links at his golf course. he said "i have arrived in scotland and will be at trump turnbury for two days of meetings, calls and hopefully, golf, my primary form of exercise. this weather is beautiful and this place is incredible." jamie dimon is in moscow, phil black is in glasgow with protests expected, and matthew chance is in helsinki, finland. we'll start, though, with jeremy in washington. let's go to scotland with jeremy

diamond, instead. jeremy, let's talk about the president and what he's saying this morning. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. well, we've seen the president already taking to twitter, offering his first reaction to this indictment of 12 russian nationals that came down from an announcement by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the president tweeting this morning, "the stories you heard about the 12 russians yesterday took place during the obama administration, not the trump administration. why didn't they do something about it, especially when it was reported that president obama was informed by the fbi in september, before the election?" so, there you have it, the president returning to his tried and true tactic of blaming president obama for something, rather than addressing the issue at hand here, which, of course, is this very stunning and significant indictment of these russian nationals, perhaps offering one of the most detailed u.s. government accounts of this hacking, which the u.s. government alleges was carried out by russian government actors.

but this all comes, of course, before the president is set to meet with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki. and so, all of these indictments will certainly be top of mind in this meeting. but how the president will address it remains a question to be seen. we saw the president just yesterday blaming not these russian actions, not russian aggression, the hacking, the meddling in the 2016 election, but rather, u.s. political stupidity. the special counsel's investigation that he has called a witch hunt, for preventing him from improving the u.s./russia relationship. so, that remains to be seen. the president did say, however, that he does intend to raise election meddling with the russian president, and he is also looking for a nuclear disarmament deal, if he can begin those talks with the russian president in helsinki. back to you. >> jeremy diamond for us in glasgow, thank you. meanwhile, anti-trump protested are set to take off in scotland

in a few moments. >> phil sblak black is in edinb. what are you seeing? >> reporter: i'm surrounded way a growing crowd here in edinboro. there are thousands of people here already. the atmosphere i think is very similar to what we saw in london ad gloss grow yesterday. it's fairly lighthearted. it's more like a festival, really, even though many of the banners and placards are carrying blunt, even rude messages directed at the american president. the message is that he's not welcome here in scotland. this crowd is going to march through edinboro, then later up, end up in a big park, where we expect to see the return of the baby trump balloon, the one that flew over london yesterday. it traveled over here, we're told, in an overnight plane, will be flying over edinboro in a short period of time. the other protest here in scotland is at turnbury, the trump golf resort where the president is staying. we expect protests there around the security perimeter. and yesterday there was a pretty extraordinary moment over

turnbury when a paraglider piloted by a green peace activist flew very close to the president's hotel, trailing an anti-trump banner through the sky. now, that is of concern to the police. they say they are looking for the pilot of that paraglider, because there are air space restrictions over the hotel to protect the president, and breaching those restrictions, the police say, is a criminal offense. christi, victor, back to you. >> all right. phil black, appreciate the report. thank you. now, president trump is heading to helsinki next for the one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin, of course, which is happening monday. >> now, there are a lot of lawmakers calling for the president to cancel the meeting, of course, after the mueller team indicted those 12 russians for hacking democrats' computers during the presidential campaign. a cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance is with us now live from helsinki. matthew, the president says that he will bring up russian interference, but it's how he's going to bring it up, and of course, what happens then as those are the most important

questions. >> that's right, victor. it would be reasonable to suggest, wouldn't it, that given the detail of the indictments, the fact that 12 russian nationals have been accused of hacking the u.s. presidential election in this way and the political system in this way, that confrontation, that chat between presidents trump and putin would be much more comfortati comfortational, that he would be able to present that evidence to the russian president, but i mean, these aren't normal circumstances. and in fact, the denials that the russians have made when it comes in to the allegations of election meddling have been repeated again. in the past few hours, there's been another statement from the russian foreign ministry saying that this is just fake news. in the past, president trump has said this is a witch hunt. the russians have used that term as well to describe the allegations against them in terms of meddling in the u.s. political system. this time, the statement says the purpose of this bogus story is to spoil the atmosphere before the russian/american summit. that summit, of course, taking place on monday here in the

finnish capital. and so, the way in which the russians, you know, describe this, as something that is politically motivated, to discredit them and to discredit president trump is, you know, something that i think the two figures are going to agree over. so, rather than be a confrontational issue for the two, it may be something they could agree on, ironically. we'll see when this meeting takes place what the tone of it is and what is actually discussed, victor. >> all right, matthew chance for us in helsinki. thank you so much. >> joining us now, cnn politics reporter jeremy herb. >> jeremy, the president has constantly called the mueller investigation a witch hunt. and we saw that even after the indictments of 13 russians and 3 russian entities earlier in the year, public sentiment, public support for the investigation waned. are we expecting that even after these new indictments that still this investigation will be unpopular? and is he succeeding with calling this a witch hunt?

>> yeah, and i think we saw from the president's statements today that these new indictments aren't going to change that strategy from both the president and his team to call this a witch hunt and to really go after mueller and say this has gone on too long. we heard those attacks on capitol hill this week. there were high-profile hearings with peter strzok, the fbi agent who started this whole russia investigation two years ago. and i don't expect those attacks are going to end just because there were 12 russians who were indicted. we heard -- you know, we've heard from them that these are working. rudy giuliani, the president's attorney, has cited public opinion polls to say that this offensive against mueller, calling him to wrap it up, saying that this is a witch hunt, it is proving effective in driving down his polls. and i think what we're seeing is that the president's legal team wants to fight this more in the political arena than in the legal arena. >> okay, that said, what is the next step for the doj, for the government handling these indictments? >> yeah, so, when deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced these indictments

yesterday, he said that no u.s. persons were accused or alleged of any illegal activity, but he also said the investigation is ongoing and there were americans who were referenced in this. one of those is believed to be roger stone, who acknowledged last night to cnn's chris cuomo he believes he is the american who was speaking with in this indictment, guccifer, the identity that the indictment says the russians used to communicate and try and pass off these leaks. stone says his messages were benign, but we know from witnesses who have spoken to mueller's team that they're asking a lot of questions about roger stone. one of those, sam nunberg, said he thinks stone is a critical piece of what mueller's after, so i don't think these indictments are the last set we've heard on this. >> and ex-cia director michael hayden says he expects more indictments and there could be indictments of americans based on the verbiage in that indictment. jeremy herb, we appreciate you being here. thank you, sir. >> thank you. still to come, the 12 boys

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is apparently one of the primary sources of conversation. from "the sun," take a look at what they're reporting -- fake schmooze. and "the sun" is who he talked to yesterday. "the daily mirror," "how dare you," "the daily express," "hold on, i'll give you a deal." >> and users on facebook and instagram are calling out what they say were missteps during the president's meeting with queen elizabeth at windsor castle. joining us from london, richard fi fitswilliams. let's start with the criticisms of, let's call it the breaks in protocol. was it as bad as many who are criticizing the president characterize it? is it as bad as they say? >> well, i mean, obviously, it was an important moment, the queen meeting the president, and then inspecting the cold stream

guards, which is the oldest regiment in the british army. if you looked at the way that was handled, it appeared that the president was inadvertently, no doubt, blocking out the queen. it was something that could have so easily been rectified if donald trump had been prepared to do a rehearsal, which i suspect that he hadn't. he certainly wandered down the lines of guardsmen looking, i thought, as though he was about to play a round of golf, but that was just my impression. all i can say is, of course, his mother was scottish. we knew he wanted to meet the queen, and unquestionably, it was an important moment for him, but it certainly could have been handled better. and no doubt, you want a moment like that to go smoothly. you don't want it all over twitter. >> so, one of the things that people caught on that ruffled some feathers, let's say, the president and first lady greeted the queen with a handshake,

rather than a customary curtsy or bow. how significant is that? >> well, i sdad from what i saw, and i have read this elsewhere, that as the president got out of his car, he bowed. so, the bow was early. i mean, this comes back to a matter of rehearsal, of knowing precisely what you're going to do. and i think he does a certain amount, as we know very well that he does, that he feels like doing. i mean, it's very difficult, this area, because it brings back memories of 1981 and nancy reagan, when she met the queen. she didn't curtsy. now, there's no reason that she should have. melania trump didn't curtsy yesterday, but the press were ruthless, dubbed her queen nancy, and more or less stalked her throughout her visit, which was to coincide with the marriage of the prince and

princess of wales. so, the point with this is anything you get wrong the press will highlight. now, there was so much that was bizarre yesterday that i can only call the moments, the 28 minutes that the president and the first lady spent with the queen as one of the more restful parts of the day. we'd never seen anything like this before, going back to all the presidents who have visited london. and i mean, there have been rather extraordinary episodes from time to time. president reagan and president obama got on extremely well, as did their wives, with the queen and the duke of edinburgh. on the other hand, there was apparently a certain freesau in the private visit of the kennedys in 1961, but this was mayhem yesterday. no wonder everyone is talking about it. they'll continue to talk about it for a very long time. >> mayhem, he says. >> mayhem! >> it was mayhem. >> it doesn't sound as

incriminatory with the british accent. >> it doesn't. finally, you remind us with references to reagan and kennedy that the queen has been meeting world leaders, u.s. presidents, for more than six decades now. is there any indication that she is bothered by this, and if so, how much? >> the queen never gives an indication as to her feeling. she is a symbol of national u t unity, a very pivotal part as britain goes into unknown waters outside the eu, or so we presume. we don't know what she thinks, and there's a great deal of strength in that. she's also above party politics, so we won't know what the queen thought. we know that the queen greeted the trumps with a charming smile. we could also see from the earlier news conference with prime minister theresa may that may was having a great deal of difficulty looking anything other than extremely strained

whilst compliments rained down upon her from trump at the press conference, when "the sun" newspaper that same morning had been anything but complimentary when he'd attacked her. >> all right, richard fitzwilliams, thank you so much. >> always good to get your perspective, sir. thank you. so, president trump is probably over that. he's done. >> yes. >> because he's got business to look forward to. >> he's over the mayhem. >> he's over the mayhem, looking ahead to his meeting with vladimir putin on monday. they're just days -- of course, happening after 12 russians are charged with meddling in the 2016 election. so, the question on a lot of people's minds is how boldly will the president confront putin on that, if at all? ♪

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well, good morning! so glad to have you with us here at 24 minutes after the hour. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good saturday morning to you. president trump is facing growing pressure now to confront vladimir putin or then just cancel their summit on monday if he's not going to do that. this is coming after 12 russian agents were charged with trying to influence the 2016 election. >> yeah, the indictment says there's no evidence their actions actually changed votes in the election, but it explicitly details how these agents hacked into the clinton campaign system, quote, on or about july 27th, 2016. the conspirators attempted after hours to spearfish for the first time e-mail accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by clinton's personal office at or around the same time they also targeted 76

e-mail addresses at that domain for the clinton campaign. and no americans, we have to point out, were charged or even named in this indictment, and there's no proof in the documents that the trump campaign itself was involved. but it's interesting to note what else happened on july 27th, 2016. take a look. >> i will tell you this, russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. that will be northwest. >> joining me now, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor shan wu. good morning to you. it may not be after, before, because of, but the reality of seeing that sound bite and then what we saw in the indictment, it is striking that that's the same day that these russian intelligence officers started digging and looking to get those

e-mails. >> yeah, that is very striking, and i agree from a legal analytical standpoint his public remarks won't be enough by themselves. you would need to show some kind of meeting of the minds, some sort of other agreement to that, but clearly, someone was listening to his remarks, and clearly, the action i think fraktually is certainly intertwined. >> from what we're seeing, these are now up to 25 russians who have been indicted by the mueller team, three russian entities as well. do you see this as a widening of the scope of this investigation, or is it tightening, as some have suggested? >> that's certainly the big question. it certainly could be widening. obviously, there's no extradition treaty with russia, so it's hard to really go after the folks there, but there are all these people who are named, essentially, even though their names weren't put forth, and those people could be the subject of a lot of pressure, so there could be part two of this,

which is a domestic part. but on the other hand, you also saw the presence of the national security division there, which indicates that mueller could be prepared to essentially hand off the investigation, and there are other reasons why they might be ready to do that as well. >> let's talk about one of those american individuals who's named but not named, and he's roger stone, president of the president who, of course, had communications with the campaign. he blogged back in march 2017, "i myself had no contacts or communications with the russian state, russian intelligence, or anyone fronting for them or acting as intermediaries for them, none, nada, zilch." now, guccifer 2 was a persona that was adopted by these russian intelligence agents, and we know that stone had communications with guccifer 2, although he calls them innocuous. what potentially is the legal exposure for roger stone based on what we know now? >> well, he looks like he has some jeopardy. i think he's mentioned that he

might be expected to be charged. and so, that type of interaction, if it can be shown that he knew that these were agents from russian intelligence agencies, that's problematic for him. there are some espionage issues. there's potentially false statements if he's been interviewed and denied that. so, he's definitely got some jeopardy there, if the knowledge can be shown, and that's the critical point. >> there was a statement released by one of the deputy white house press secretaries, lindsey walters, in which they do not -- and we can put it up on the screen for people to look at while we're discussing it. there is no message of congratulations. there is no message of gratitude to the doj. it's saying that the charges do not include allegations against anyone in the u.s., and essentially, no collusion in 100 words. what do you make of the framing of this from the white house? >> well, it's certainly unusual. i mean, one would expect that the white house would be pleased with the department of justice's

work, rather than counterspinning it this way, purely politically. so, that's certainly unusual, as is the case with most of their statements on this. it's a very detailed indictment. i think it's a tremendous wake-up call for the vulnerability of our elections system, and it really puts to a lie the president's repeated points that this is a witch hunt and there's no basis. granted, there may not be evidence at this point of collusion with the campaign itself, but it can no longer be any debate that the russians were attempting to interfere with the election. >> all right, shan wu, as always, thank you, sir. >> good to see you. >> joining me now, cnn political analyst joesh rogen. good morning. >> good morning. >> first, listen to what the president said about this investigation yesterday at checkers. watch. >> i think that we're being hurt very badly by the, i would call it the witch hunt, i would called it the rigged witch hunt

after watching some of the little clips. i didn't get to watch too much because i'm here. it's a different time zone, to put it mildly. but after watching the people, that man that was testifying yesterday, i call it the rigged witch hunt. i think that really hurts our country and it really hurts our relationship with russia. >> now josh, we've got some con text about what the president knew when he called it a rigged witch hunt. he had been informed earlier in the week that these 12 additional indictments were coming down. >> yeah, i mean, i think we get sort of used to the president saying these kinds of things, and it's important to remind ourselves and to remind our viewers that it's absurd and shocking and unsettling that the president of the united states sees the threat to america not as the russian attack on our democracy that his own justice department just spelled out in excruciating detail, but the investigation into that attack, and that is a sort of bizarre, you know, commentary on where we are. i mean, he knew that all of the

details of this were going to come out. he insists on calling it a witch hunt and insists on attacking and unmining it. and we get caught up about collusion, no collusion. of course, the indictment doesn't have any allegations of collusion. it also doesn't rule out collusion. what i'm saying is, put collusion aside. let's give the president the benefit of the doubt. even if he didn't collude, isn't it bad enough that he's attacking the investigation, refusing to acknowledge it, meeting with the guy who perpetrated the investigation? and also as you showed in that last clip, encouraging the attacks as they were ongoing, okay? it doesn't have to be collusion to be horrible, okay? he can just be a fellow traveler, as we used to call them, somebody who eighths the russian intelligence service in attacking our country without actually being in communication. to me, that's bad enough. >> yeah, so, that was one of the topics many people now, of course, before, but certainly, after the indictments came down, asked if trump would discuss

that with putin on monday. but on the table is also syria, an area which the president believes they can make some progress. there was a withdrawal deal discussed at the white house between the president and king abdullah. that was at the end of june. and potentially, it could be discussed in hill sihelsinki on monday. you have a new column out that calls it a terrible idea. >> we talked about what happened last year and the year before. what about now? what about what trump and putin are about to do about what's going on in the world right now? and i think syria's top of their agenda. we know the president wants to get america out, and there is a lot of popular support to getting america out, but the terms under which we get america out have grave implications, not only for syria and the region, but also for america's national security. and i argue in this column that the terms that he's discussing with putin will be very bad for national security. what i mean by that is that he's going to take all of the u.s. troops out, hand over the land to russia, allow iran to

continue, you know, create a situation where isis can re-emerge, and then declare victory, okay? and that could be very bad in terms of allowing iran to expand around the region, allowing the terrorists to regroup, and keeping assad in power while he commits mass atrocities against his own people. hopefully, they won't strike that deal. hopefully, you know, more educated, more informed people inside trump's administration will persuade the president that that's actually very dangerous for our national security, but that's the risk. and when president trump or president putin get in that room without anyone, except for the translator, the interpreter, knowing what's going on, there is a real risk that they're going to strike a deal over syria that, essentially, endo e endorses assad, russia, and iran taking over of that country. sure, it will allow america to pull out, which will save us some money, for sure, but it will also create a very dangerous situation, in my opinion, that could come back to haunt us, similar to what barack obama did in 2011roggin, good t

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i don't even have to tell you that today serena williams continues her quest. you all know. to reclaim her title as queen of center court. doing this less than a year after having a baby. she's playing for what would be her eighth singles title at wimbledon. cnn sports analyst christine brennan, one of our favorites, back with us here. help us understand the significance of this moment. >> christi, this is really remarkable. i think it's the sports story of the year already, and if she wins today, i think that cements it. but as you mentioned, ten months ago, she gave birth to a beautiful baby daughter. she ended up having complications due to that birth, and serena williams ended up

undergoing four surgeries, she said. she said she lost count. blood clots, aneurisms, it was very, very difficult for her, very concerning. some difficult few weeks. obviously, it set back any thoughts she had of coming back to play tennis because she was focused on not only her life, but of course, the life of her daughter. everything's worked out fine. of course, she's playing tennis. this is only her fourth tournament, though. i don't think anyone expected, christi, that serena would come back this quickly and be this good this fast. and of course, the iconic center court of wimbledon, what could be a better stage for this superhero who's turned into every woman in terms of the way she's talked about the difficulties of being a mom and now here she is on top of her game once again. >> based on what you know about her, about her determination and her mind-set, how prepared is she? does everything that happened in the last ten months push her harder? >> i think it does, and i think it makes her a better tennis player overall, because she's got perspective. now, having said that, serena's the greatest of all time.

i think she's the greatest tennis player of all time, certainly greatest women's tennis player of all time. there's the back and forth of argument. we don't need to get into that. i think she's the greatest female athlete in any sport, ever. just extraordinary, the power, the grace, the ability to be at age 36, almost 37, to be this good in a young woman's sport. it's just remarkable. but i do think it's given her perspective as she has, of course, played out in social media. her daughter, olympia, the first steps that she missed. what parent can't relate to that? a working mom. when she wore the cat suit at the french open, not hiding anything, in other words, not worrying about the few extra pounds that she has, talking about she has. yes, her workplace is the tennis court. she is speaking for young women out there and women like herself that's given birth and dealing with all of this. i think at this time in her culture, #metoo, serena is the

pernext story at the perfect time. >> with that said, how competitive is her competitor? >> opening leangelique kerber ih is old in tennis, which tells you how amazing serena is, 36, almost 37. it might spoil the story, win or lose, she has made a remarkable tone in history. >> christine, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> how great would it be for serena to win 24 today in london and then to come book to the u.s. in september and take 25? it would be great. >> it would be pretty remarkable. >> all right.

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life would be seen by millions around the world. >> the video went around on face boovj it w facebook. it was unreal to watch that almost in real time. >> a couple people said we're going down to the governor's mansion. >> reporter: they decided the mansion would be the site of the protest. at the same time, a mysterious group don't shoot began organizing a different protest outside the police department where the officer that shot him worked. >> where did this come from? we're used to help bring people to the protest. this was something that literally came out of the blue the fourth precinct was in north minneapolis the governor's mansion is in st. paul, minnesota, two completely different areas with different demographics. >> being involved here i know there is no organization "don't shoot." so i knew that something was up.

i just poked around a little bit, looked at their tape and they had thousands of likes. i said who are you involved with? what do you have oaks working on setting this up i know 91 of them heard of this event. >> we have our own marshals and leaders. no one got hurt. that was our top priority. >> this was much deeper than a rogue protest. >> we got an anonymous tip forwarded to us that stated that their website was registered to some strip mall in illinois. >> no one knew about the website. it was a fake page a fake

website. if reality, don't shoot is 4,000 miles away in russia. it was russian. the program was the internet research agency that had ties to the kremlin a net worth of thousands of fake american social media accounts and it only took them a few hours to post about the shooting of philandro castille. >> tell your friends and family about our protest. >> the only thing strange ab it, this page is run from st st. petersburg, russia. >> i don't like it at all. for one thing, you are using my son's face. you understand what i'm say something this is my son. god gave him to me, nobody had the right to take him from me.

then to take a sad situation an exploit it, you know and for them to use my baby. no. >> the world knows philandro castille's name because of facebook. it's where his girl friend began to shoot live after he was shot. it's where his friends and family turned to organizer after he died. it's where the russian troll group would seek the tragedy. >> you take social issues and you are making a joke out of them. these are things that we stand about truth and justice. that's what this country was built off of. the indictment charges 12 military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the

2016 presidential election. >> you are the man suggested in this dime. what's your answer? >> i certainly acknowledge i was in touch with the trump campaign. it's benign, it's innocuous. >> i think we are being hurt badly by i would call it the witch hunt. >> the president's ad hoc style. >> that may well give mr. putin assurance and that would be extremely dangerous to our national security interest. >> i think we would have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia and a very good chance to have a further good relationship with president putin. this is "new day" weekend. >> happy saturday to you. this morning, president trump is not speak out against 12 officials in the