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robert mueller's hands. >> before the helsinki summit, the president's team was riding a wave of declining support. now this may have emboldened mueller. >> this is happening as the state leaders are defending plans for another summit, the time in washington. >> sarah westwood is live near the president's golf club. sarah, good morning to you. the white house is now having to defend this decision to have a second meeting in a few months. >> that's right, victor, this is coming as president trump's legal team is worried that any advantage they had gained was erased by president trump's widely criticized performance alongside president putin. in the court of public penalties, trump's team turned the tide in his fave. polls show a recent inspector report raised questions of

select bias, sources them our colleagues, dana bash and gloria borger that trump's attorneys now fear that trump's demptial treatment of putin and the indictment of 12 russian intelligence officers accused of conducting cyber attacks on americans in order to interfere with the process could start to blupt the momentum that they had created through their campaign of relentless attacks on muel r mueller. obviously this comes on president trump and his attorneys negotiating over the prospect of going an interview. it is not a good time for the white house to have a weakened hasn't in the court of public penalties as well as facing down this putin meeting as trump's attorneys try to avoid an interview altogether or severely limit the scope of one, if it occurs. >> sarah westwood, traveling with the president. thank you.

walk bureau chief, chicago "sun" times is with us. and cnn historian and professor of history and policy at new york university and a cnn legal analyst and federal prosecutor with us. thank you all. lip, straight to you. does what we are seeing with this helsinki sum, does it undermine the president and embolden the mueller investigation? >> can i say, yes and no, there is the court of public penalties and a methodic cal investigation mueller is conducting. in which case, i don't think it's any more boldening as it has right now. look at the indictment of the 12 russian agents days before trump twoept speak to putin. that was a delivery to take to him to helsinki. so in the court of public penalties, i am skeptical to whether or not in terms of the

base the republican based voters of helsinki makes much of a difference to look for in the unfolding days is whether republicans in congress, particularly the leadership find out this is finally the last straw, one of the last straws, we are far from the last, that does cause a rift between trump and republican leadership. we did see mcconnell and ryan speak out, with putin coming again to washington. if that trip unfolds, i think it will put more pressure on republican leaders to say, what itself going on here? will there be people in the room? if are you going fine tune and develop whatever you talked about in those two hours, will this be done in a way that people know it's going on and every day that passes, is a day closer to the november elections. >> so tim, we have reporting out of issue this morning that they are now saying there is a potential agreement on a ukraine referendum, thisition to what

they've already said that they've talked about cyber crime in this helsinki meeting. they talked about military security, a possible deal with syria, yet, we are hearing nothing from this white house. what do you make of the fact that it seems president trump is allowing russia to dictate the conversation and the consequences from it at this point? >> well, kristi, i'm not sure who is allowing whom. the russians are not 12 feet tall. they make mistakes. what they're doing at the moment is they're controlling the narrative about the meeting and the effect of that is that they are actually humiliating president trump. >> so why is he letting him do it? why didn't he come out and say more? >> i think the last week was additional evidence that president trump is not particularly strong. he's not a particularly strong foreign leader. he's very, he's a battering ram with our own allies, but with

adversaries, he allows them to dictate the narrative. look what he has done with north korea. so i think the russians are making interesting gamble. i suspect our intelligence community is trying to figure out why they're making the gamble right now. because after all, if you keep in mind. what does putin want? putin wants a free hand in syria the agreement the russians say was reached is an agreement that is contrary to the basic pales of most of the occupation government. why would the russians be admitting that now? it's really interesting. i suspect they have figure3d out president trump needs better optics. that's the reason why president trump has invited putin to come here just before the mid-terms. this has nothing to do we are warding the russians for a good agreement. the russians have trump exactly where they'd like to have him, which is that he needs them more than they need him. i think what they've done is they've doubled down to try to

set up some kind of averagements, knowing the president needs something positive to come out of it. this has been a terrible week for american foreign policy, but i suspect the russians may have overplayed their hands, they have humiliated trump. he may react badly to that. >> i want you to listen to, sean turner, u.s. national intelligence said last night with wolf blitzer when he was asked about this second summit, or the second meeting with putin here in the u.s. here's what he had to say. >> for the president to invite vladimir putin here during that time puts a lot of stress on the intelligence communitych i am told one of the things he is interested is having vladimir putin here during the big military parade he's talked about. i think the president is focused on his own interests with regard to this. >> michael, what do you think about that reporting she citing the president wants to bring

putin here, which would be in november for the military parade, which in itself has been a controversy? >> right. so, if i were given a vote, i'd say, let's not hold that military parade. if i was giving it a second vote, i would say, let's not have vladimir putin at that military parade. i'm not sure what the purpose of that is. i don't think from a pr stand poip, it's all that helpful to the president. if he's trying to craft a legal narrative that there is no collusion coordination in the past between putin and myself and my campaign that makes me beholden to him. so i think the optics of that does not help him in his legal efforts. >> okay. so, lynn, what do you make of that assertion that the president wants to do this during military parade, what would the interpretation be there from the president's part?

>> it would be my political and psychological analysis here is that president trump is and almss is a reality show star and this would be a great special. i say that in seriousness, because we know there are so many inconsistencies, on one hand, president trump is proud of the money he is saving by not having joint military exercises with south korea that he's willing to spend millions on a parade in washington, d.c. that is really for one man, himself. there is no public demand for this parade. if you have putin there, i think it's very risky before the mid-term elections because it will force every republican to take a stand, why is our number one enemy invited to this place of honor to review the troops? if the answer is to show how strong america is militarily, you don't need a parade in washington, d.c. to show that.

so it's risky, it's expensive. trump always likes to be counting the bill, as we was in private industry and proud to say cost cutting. so it runs opposite to his own message. it will be framed very much as just some kind of self adulation, more than any reasonable execution of policy. >> tim, how do you couple that assertion about the military parade with what we have learned in the last 24 hours. you know, microsoft executive to him burke revealed that this security forum this week the last 48 hours happened on thursday, that russian intellioperatives hacked into online accounts of three different congressional campaigns going into the november mid-terms. i mean, he's talking about bringing putin to the u.s. at that time. historically, when you look back, would that ever have been something that any president would have considered?

>> you know, the kremlin has not had as useful an asset in the white house since vice president henry wallace was a conveyer belt for kremlin disinformation in world war ii. i think it is appalling that the president of the united states the allowing putin to basically decktate the narrative of our country's policy towards europe and towards syria. what is striking to me is that secretary of state mike pompeo instead of getting ahead of the tore today, is talking about a freedom, a religious freedom summit next week. >> that might be very important. i'm not saying that isn't. i'm saying that today the secretary of state should

reassert america's privacy in dictating and describing its foreign policy in europe and the middle east. that's not happening. >> all righty. and i wanted to ask you michael lastly about this information that's coming out about the hacking of these three campaigns. the fact that it was an attempt at hacking. but the fact that it is still ongoing. what does the president do at this point? what do republicans do at this point? with the president who seems to still embrace putin. >> i think there are a couple things from a purely political stand point. the question is in the legal context, did the russians hack? we know that mueller says yes in his indictment. did the trump organization coordinate? and is there a basis to believe that that relationship still is ongoing, which explains why

putin and trump behave that is they do towards one another. the ongoing hacking campaign gives the president an opportunity to essentially correct the perceived errors of helsinki and say, mr. putin, this can't go on anymore and make stand that supports his legal proposition that there was never collusion in the first instance and now that i've seen it first hands, you will put an end to it. if he doesn't respond, you know, aggressively about that then again it feeds the legal narrative there was some coordination. there is ongoing fear that putin has negative information on him, which is why he is not responding negatively. there is lots of opportunity and lots of danger if he doesn't act aggressively to put an end to this. >> i always appreciate all of your insights.

thank you for being here. >> thank you. this morning, russia is putting a spin on this one-on-one meeting with putin. they call it better than super, they talked about syria, ukraine, military security. we are getting the news from the two men from moscow, since the white house hasn't said much of anything of what went on in that meeting. senior national correspondent sam kylie is live from moscow. tell us more how the russians are characterizeing this meeting, how they are moving forward on some of the agreements they say were reached in that one-on-one. >> reporter: well, they're absolutely delighted as you said, you were quote, sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, a man not given to fusions of any kind was high fiving his staff at the presidential palace in helsinki after the meeting and after the press conference between donald trump and vladimir putinch

subsequent to that the russians have been steadily almost working if you'd like as a pr branch for donald trump by trying to reenforce his position that there were worthwhile discussions not controversial. initially, the minister of defense said there were talks about the talks of the future, salt treaty, which expires in about 18 months, that will be a renewal. pretty uncover there. also talking about cooperating on terror an on cyber, a little ironic there. most people have not marked open it. only, it's been cyber hacking over efforts to influence the election, then they started to leak about an agreement or alleged agreement about possible repatriation of syrian refugees. those refugees outside of syria, back into that country. >> that is if they go back into areas, though, under russian stroked syrian regime control, completely contrary to existing

american policy in the region. an opportunity for them to make trump look as though he may be getting ahead of his own administration and there were hints the white house since put back on, donald trump was going to consider whether or not he would support a referendum on the future of the region, occupied part of ukraine. so they are leaking out details, very much from their own perspective. taking control of the whole story. one thing to add, very interesting, indeed, the european union have been accused of manipulating currency. that itself just the sort of thing that the russians like to hear, yet more 46, that big bear and the occupation, their greatest rival. >> sam, thanks so much. all right. this is a very brave woman here will you hear from, the mom who

lost nine family members, including all three of her own children in that deadly duck boat accident. we are taking you live to branson, missouri. you will hear more from her ap the investigation. a prominent doctor shot and killed, police are looking for his killer the doctor's connection to former president george h.w. bush. rosanne barr is back with what she claims is the real reason her show was cancelled after she post thad racist tweet. >> my show was cancelled before even one advertiser pulled out and i was labelled a racist. why you ask? well the answer is simple.

this morning, two people injured in that missouri duck boat crash are out of the hospital. >> this is happening as authorities athoupsed the identitys of the 17 people who were killed when that tourist boat capsized if really hurricane-like conditions.

>> that happened thursday. cnn is in branson, missouri right now. what are you hearing today that's been going on there and this mom that is talking that i see is surprising everybody. >> i think it is, kristi. at this time four survivors from the tragedy here at table rock lake remain hospitalized, as you mentioned. the 17 victims have all been identified. now 36 hours removed from a tragedy has that shaken this community. this is a hop bar destination, this area of the ozarks. none of these victims are from this area. yet last night you saw a tremendous show of support from this xhupt. a vigil outside the ride the ducks office, in which there was a sense of people of this is branson, when you come here, you become a part of our family. >> you mentioned this stunning

story we have learned of those on board. 11 members of one family the coleman family died and we are hearing from the first survivor, one of the members of the coleman family, listen to the experience tia copeman described from her hospital bed. >> there is big huge what is copy, everything started getting, like, hey, this is a little too much. then it got really choppy and big swells came into the boat. humg wave swept over. when that wave swept over, the last thing i heard my sister-in-law yell is grab the baby. my head pushed up to the top of the water. i lost control. i didn't have control of anybody. i know it wasn't, but it field like i struggled for at least ap hour, but it was probably like ten minutes. >> among the nine family

members, tia coleman lost, her three children. she says she believes when the boat is recovered from the bottom of this lake where it currently sits, 80-feet deep. she says she believes all of the life vests will be found on that boat because they were never instructed to grab them. she says the crew explained to them where the vest can be found but neff told them to put them on. >> that boat as i mentioned still at the bottom of this lake the recovery will be an important part of this investigation, as we reason talking to survivors and witnesses for the ktsb. police in houston, by the way, are looking for suspect who shot and killed a cardiologist, a cardiologist who treated former president george h.w. bush. >> versions say he was shot and killed friday riding his bicycle to work. according to police the doctor

was riding in one direction. he was shot by a suspect riding in the other direction. police don't know if the shooting was targeting this doctor or random of caused by road rage. still to come, russia, controling the narrative about what happened in helsinki, now the president's legal team is worried his behavior may embolden the special counsel's investigation. democratic senator richard blumenthal joins us next. >> also, 20 million people of us under threat of tornadoes this week. the same system that caused all of the damn you have seen here in iowa. is working its way across the southeast. we have a lot in to report for you.

welcome back, i'm victor blackwell. cnn is learning the president's legal team is becoming increasingly concerned the helsinki sum could strengthen bob mueller's investigation. they have shaping a narrative, which has yet to be confirmed by the white house. here with me to discuss, democratic senator are couple, richard blumenthal, go remember to you. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with your assessment. does the president or has the president's performance in

helsinki and since helsinki you believe strengthened bob mueller's investigation and weakened the president as a sympathetic character as he characterizes the investigation as a witch hundredt. >> special counsel's investigation very importantly will be based on the facts in the law. so his hand and his position in court is going to be dependent on his continuing meth oughtic cal and meticulous fakd typeding a -- fact finding and investigation. but it certainly 81 cuts the court of public penalties has has been mentioned. the reason is, quite simply, putin made dominican republic his patsy, his puppet. he made a fool of donald trump. vladimir putin is not just any foreign leader. he is the autocratic dictator of a foreign power that is an enemy

of the united states and that attacked the occupation. the special counsel brought an indictment just last friday that accused 12 of putin's foreign spies interfering in our election the special counsel investigation in effect is investigating donald trump's possible collaboration or conspiracy with putin, his ac . agents. to make donald trump look like a fool on the world stage certainly undercuts his position in this investigation. >> so let's in that context now talk about the announcement that came up this week, late this leak that putin will be coming to the u.s. at an invitation in the fall. we heard from majority leader mcconnell an nancy pelosi's office over in the house, he will not be welcome to visit

congress. but should there be something more than simply saying you cannot come here, that congress should do or can do in opposition to this visit that's coming in the next few months. >> if anything, putin ought to be indicted, not invited to the united states. donald trump is threading on exceedingly dangerous ground. dan coates warned we are in a pre-9/11 moment, because of the ongoing attack, pervasive. and ongoing attack on this nation from the russians. so it's more than just about donald trump's ego and what happens to putin while he's here. it's about the national security of the united states and the most insidious part of this visit is that it will enable the russians to gather more intelligence and potentially

threaten our national security. >> but senator, is there anything more -- >> than to humiliate donald trump. >> is there anything more that congress can do than say, he won't be invited here? should the congress in the last couple of weeks passed a resolution saying that, you know, what we saw with nato, we saw in opposition to the potential of sending former ambassador to moscow toub questioned, there there should be something formal in opposition to this invitation? smr we are considering what we can do normally. a resolution is one option. perhaps we ought to move forward with it. i think my republican colleagues should join us? condemning this potential visit. donald trump likes to operate without intelligence. but he has humiliated the intelligence community. he had refused to tell many of his closest advisers, apparently

the full extent of what happened in that helsinki meeting. a repetition of that kind of meeting would be a debacle again for this country and any time the two of them, putin and trump, are in the same room, our country is the less safe. so a resolution, some kind of public statementtial bipartisan, and i hope my republican colleagues will daytona this discussion i hope that my republican colleagues will step up and speak out. >> all right. you mentioned the ambiguity of what happened in that meeting between president putin and president trump and, of course the other two people there were interpreters. let me read the latest tweet from a minority leader in the senate there, chuck schumer. asking to interview the interpreter is not a request made lightly, when unverified news at a closed door meeting is coming out of moscow, serious

steps must be to be taken to uncover the truth. are you not creating dangerous precedent here by calling for the interview or the testimony of that interpreter that years down the line, a suspicious republican congress can call for the notes from an interpreter of a democratic president? >> well, that's a very good question. the dangerous precedent has been created by donald trump. having a two-hour meeting between himself and putin without anyone present, leads to the request for at least the translator's notes. but what's most important i think is for donald trump's thashl security team to come to brief congress to bring us the facts that occurred from donald trump, himself, to tell the american people the narrative is

coming from is russia news agency task rather than from the president of the occupation. he has weakened this country, put in effect his own interests before the country's, and so the resort to having the translator is not our first choice. the national security team at the present if properly formed can come to congress, present testimony. mike pompeo is coming this coming wednesday. but the entire team were to come? senator, i got a few seconds left, i want to ask you about legislation moving knew the senate. this is senator's rubio and hom lande, it -- hollande, it's adding about nine bipartisan co-sponsors late this week, it would essentially tie sanctions against russia in future interference in an election to the assessment of the national director of

intelligence, encroaching on the president's powers there, do you think that the president will sign this and, if not, do you realistically think that there is going to be a veto-proof majority in the senate and the house that will take these powers away from the president and enact them automatic ally based on the dni reports? >> great question. first of all, i'm a supporter of this legislation. i think additional sanctions are necessary. the president refused to pass the sanctions earlier, his refusal is absolutely reprehensible. they passed 97-2. i would predict that these sanctions will also pass. there have been a le have-proof majority. there is strong bipartisan as well tore moving forward cyber to use our resources to stop the

continuing russian attack. i can't be more emphatic. this country must go on the offensive in cyber. use the cyber command and our resource. to trim and penetrate those attacks on our country. >> i have a few seconds left. you think in the waning months before mid-term election, will you get enough republicans and democrats even in those trump states who will be willing to vote over a presidential veto to try to take some of the pow, away from the president? >> if the republican leadership addresses this challenge and puts this measure on the floor, i believe the votes will be there because my hope is and it's more a hope than a prediction, republicans will meet this challenge. they must stand up and speak out and now is the time for action, because vladimir putin understands only action. action speaks louder than words.

>> all right, senator richard blumen that, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you. well, rosanne barr is back with a second video in two days. she says she was the real reason she was fired from her nbc show. if you ask her, it was not for that racist tweet. may help support your digestive health so you can take on your day. start the activia probiotic challenge today. it works or it's free!

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. >> 44 minutes past the hour. rosanne barr is back. she says she has a reason why she was let go. it was not about that tweet. it was really about her to voting record. >> my show was cancelled before one advertiser pulled out and i was labeled a racist.

why, you ask? the answer is simple. it's because i voted for donald trump and that is not allowed in hollywood. >> cnn senior correspondent is following this story for us. good to see you. fact check this for us, would you please? >> you know i watched this clip last night. i must say it's not too surprising rosanne is going down the path. she is a conservative. for lot of conservatives, they feel the media is against them an hollywood is made up of liberals. it's not surprising. it's worth noted she was fired about that racist tweet about vamry jarrett. it is also worth photoing they probably hired her because of her conservative credentials. if you look back when she launched, the president gave an interview to the new york sometimes and how they come up

with the idea of relaunching rosanne. the abc executives got together and realized there is this middle mech, if they can come one a show to appeal to them it might do well and trump expose thad this electorate existed and it was under served. so they effectively hired rosanne for her conservative credentials and appeal to the conservative base. it's extremely odd she is claiming that she was fired for that reason. >> well, where does this new show stand? because i know there is a new show called "the conors" right? >> right. >> has that gone into production? how realistic to make air without rosanne? >> that show is moving on without rosanne, more evidence that she was traps she was nod

fired because of her credentials. it is worth noting this isn't the only video rosanne posted yesterday. she posted this out hinged outburst. she talked about the racist tweets that got her fired from abc. why don't we take a listen to that? >> i'm trying to talk about eastern. i'm trying to talk about vamry jarrett and the iran deal. >> you told me this 300 times. >> that's what my tweet was about. >> i know, she's explained this literally. >> i thought she was -- i thought the [ bleep ] was white. >> i think that made add context. maybe she's trying to get attention with these unhinged outburst she is posting online. i think it's safe to say she was probably not fired for them.

>> we appreciate you bringing it to us. thank you so much. we'll be right back.

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20 million people across the southeast are facing threats from tornadoes this weekend. >> we are tracking it all from atlanta. apparently we had wild weather blow through in there it was quite the lightning show out there. torrential downpours as times. the good news the storm moved relatively quickly, here's the thing, we have been tracking where it's going, just in the last 24 hours, this system has produced three torn reports, over 80 hail reports. several of those baseball side hail or larger. that's likely to continue as this system pushes down to the south and east.

we have a thunderstorm in effect. charlotte, colombia will be under the threat, why? we have two rounds, one moved some of these cities, another will be coming back this afternoon. so all of these cities you see here in yellow have the social for damaging winds the harm hail and yes we cannot rule out an isolated tornado. you see more cells firing up later into the afternoon, mainly say about 2:00/3:00, carrying through the i don't have nit hours. heavy rain will also be a factor. some of the areas will get hit twice. keep in mind, while most areas get less than two inches of rain, guys, have you some that get more than four. >> all right. allison, thanks. so let me ask you a question, are you yep set or disappointed by some of the things brump does? according to some folks, you may

be suffering from trump dereagement syndrome. >> slopering civility. is uppine puppy. >> reporter: such disdain triggered a counter attack from trump derangement syndrome has initially come to the senate. >> reporter: it's been everywhere else, full blown donald trump derangegement syndrome has become a thing. >> i never heard of trump derangement syndrome i'm not a doctor. >> reporter: you don't need a degree in psychiatry. >> trump derangement strome, hatred of donald trump so intense it impairs people's judgment. >> reporter: the president is citing it, judge janine pointed at woopi saying she had it. >> did you just point at me? you know what's horrible when the occupation --

>> they took a commercial brake to calm her down. >> i very rarely lose my cool. i don't like being accused of being histerical. >> pbs if nothing new, 15 years ago, something coined bush derangement syndrome, followed by obama derangement syndrome is there we are hoping a comedian can come up with the anti-anxietieser for a liberal, one pill a day, maybe a suppository. >> reporter: who needs a suppository when jimmy kimmel has a cure. >> do you think the world is out to get you? you may be sufficienting about trump derangement syndrome. rezine. >> reporter: maybe critic versus to resign themselves, feeling deranged. >> this is called obama derangement streyndrome.

>> trump derangement syndrome. >> reporter: make yourself fell good again. >> with that, we have to hand it over to smerconish. >> we'll see you back here at 10:00 eastern zblchl

♪ . >> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we with el come viewers from the occupation and around the world. just when a week for the president you thought could not get worse it did. he was taped by his own lawyer about a payment to karen mcdougall. the president's strikeout after doing damage control with his