looked like super heroes, sometimes on the inside it doesn't matter how big or strong you are. we all deal with problems and brian dawkins speech had to be something to remind us that we can all reach. >> where was that? >> canton, ohio. >> next door to what? it all goes back to the buckeye state. >> thank you, coy. >> you're welcome. we got to stop it. we got to stop meddling. we got to stop everybody from attacking us. russia is there. china is there. >> according to sources close to the white house, the president is scared for his son. >> lying about whether the president knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians, that would be perjury. >> i think they have taken this very seriously and their denials and what do we have on the other side? just the word of michael cohen. >> do you think he uses that as a scapegoat? >> at times. at times. >> reporter: i think the first lady is underscoring it is an option. >> no greater mystery in the

world than a relationship between husband and wife but it is astonishing and gets to the wondering about the marriage. ♪ good morning to you. 7:00 on a sunday morning! we are happy to wake you up here. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. good morning. this morning, a glimpse into why president trump is so anxious about the russia investigation. and increased his attacks on special counsel robert mueller. >> sources kellogg. >> sources telling cnn he could be caught up in the probe for his son don jr. in helping set up that 2016 meeting with russians who had promised to dirt on hillary clinton. cnn sarah westwood is in live in new jersey where president trump is on his working vacation. this 2016 meeting is not new. why now is the president showing

such concern about this? >> reporter: well, we have known about this meeting for a very long time, but what is only recently come to light is the fact that trump may have had advanced knowledge of this meeting or, very at the least, may have been told about it shortly after the fact. michael cohen is preferred to testify to special counselor robert mueller that trump had a heads-up about that meeting and contradict what donald trump jr. has already told congressional investigators. rudy giuliani, trump's personal attorney, is denying that trump jr. is in legal jeopardy telling cnn n a statement, it is not so. after over a year or more of investigating there is no wrongdoing on his part for that matter the president. nothing has changed. we are not worried about michael cohen he has no knowledge of wrongdoing and recorded it in one version or another so often that he can't be believed or relied on. sources tell telling cnn that

trump's concern for his son is part of the reason trump is more concerned toward the special counsel in recent weeks, especially on twitter. even though they are denying trump jr. is any legal danger they are telling confidants about the personal effect on his family. >> thank you, sarah. appreciate it. president trump did mention the russia investigation as he rallied a campaign speech last night in ohio. republicans are now potentially at risk of losing a seat in a district that they have controlled for three decades. here is cnn's boris sanchez. >> reporter: president trump making his way outside to columbus, ohio, on saturday to 12th congressional district to campaign for a special election candidate that is in a dead heat with a democrat. trial balderson is running against danny o'connor in a race should not be this close. franklin, we wouldn't be

talking about this were it not for president trump as it's ruby red for decades and president trump won it by 11 points put but a poll shows the two candidates are in a virtual tie, one percentage difference point between the two so trump came here on saturday to try to prevent a new wave that is headed in the midterm elections. president trump spent the majority of his speech touting his and bashing his enemies the democrats and the media. president trump mentioned the russia investigation and yet again calling it a hoax and pushing the idea that the united states has to be prepared from cyberattacks from a lot of different actors. listen to this. >> we got to stop it. we got to stop meddling. we got to stop everybody from attacking us but there are a lot. russia is there. china is there. hey. we are doing well with north korea but they are probably there.

we got to stop everybody. >> reporter: there is also an unexpected guest here for president trump's speech. former communications director hope hicks who resigned from the administration in february. white house officials say that her presence here should not signal a return, essentially telling cnn it doesn't mean much more than just a friendly visit. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president, outside of columbus, ohio. washington bureau chief of the chicago sun times lynn sweet is us and legal analyst page pate. what did you make of the president's rally and how significant is it on this special election on tuesday? >> in terms of rallying the base, it is significant because anything to get out the vote is important. i listen to that and there is, like, three ways to listen to that. part of it, i have to say, that just the facts that president trump got wrong, he talked about

the tallahassee trail and he had factors where he did, though, talk about his election night victory once again. now, it's like he is stuck in time every rally, he kind of replays that night. i don't know when he can ever possibly move off of it, but don't discount the importance of rallying the base and that is no democratic figure out there who has the same sway and who could come in at the last minute and rally the troops in that way. so there is something to it and this is a district that should be red, as we have noted, and everything that trump hit on in his speech last night, you know, we are the forgotten people, the democrats don't want you. he also said things were not true about democrats like they want crime, that is just ridiculous and not true.

but he said it. and he believes it will be effective and he pushed, pushed as far as he could about saying -- about painting the democrats as people were were not law abiding and wanted everything the people he was talking to did not want. >> page, let's get to what else the president, as we are understanding is concerned about his son don jr. being incriminated some some sense in this mueller probe. how vulnerable is don jr., based on what we know thus far? >> any time someone makes statements to a congressional panel or investigators or law enforcement officers, there is always the risk if they give a false statement, if they say something that is not true, they can later be prosecuted for either making a false statement, which is a separate crime, or perjury, if the testimony is given under oath. the question is does the special counsel have enough evidence to prove something don jr. said was false? i don't think they will rest

simply on what michael cohen may be saying now. i think they are going to need more. there if there is corroborating evidence that don jr. said anything about that meeting or in addition anything else that is not true he faces the risk of being prosecuted for making a false statement or possibly for perjury. >> the president is a father. you understand his concern for his son, lynn. >> sure. >> is there anything that the president -- i mean, just talking about it and being out there, he is actually, in some sense, do you think, making it worse for don jr.? >> no. because i think mueller and his probers just follow the trail. and i know, page, you talked about what seems to be a potential obstruction of justice charge. i think the exposure lies is that don jr. could speak to the collusion charge. whether or not the meeting took place, how it took place, and why it took place are very important -- we know it took place. are pieces of the puzzle. was it because it was not just

to get dirt on hillary clinton, it was also this code word that they used at the time to talk about russian adoptions, that is another way, code, of talking about the sanctions against russia because the russian retaliation was to ban adoption. so that was one and the same. if one did not know it, if you want to play naive, that doesn't mean it's a piece that is important in the mueller charge of looking at the russian collusion aspect the election. >> page, i need to ask you about paul manafort's trial that starts again tomorrow, full force. is it too late for him to plea? >> no. it's never too late to enter a guilty plea but the incentive for doing so at this point seems remote and not so beneficial for paul manafort. normally in a federal criminal case event if you can't strike a deal to cooperate if you plead guilty early you'll get credit and get a lower sentence.

during the the trial that is not necessarily true. but if he has something to offer the special counsel's office then he could always strike a deal. looking at the evidence we have seen so far in the trial, it is moving fast, i think much faster than most people expected, there is a pile of documents building up that the prosecution has laid out for people to see that show false statements were made, money was being moved, and manafort knew about it. the real question is what are we going to hear from rick gates next week? i do anticipate he will be called early in the week. will he be able to show that manafort knew about all of these false statements, all of the money movements and l. failures to disclose the bank accounts? because manafort's team, of course, is saying this is all rick gates and he did it all and did it so he could steal money from paul manafort. now is the crunch time for the defense. will they be able to show that through cross-examination? >> lynn sweet and page pate, we appreciate you being here so much. >> thank you.

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literally only a mile or so from the county and colorado border. >> the investigation didn't turn up much. >> we just continued to learn what we could about it and, at some point in there, we kind of believed that this might have an access to the missing child in georgia. >> reporter: surveillance continued on that compound and two adults were identified. >> we were able to get a search warrant for the property to search for the child, the father, and the welfare of anyone else on the property. >> reporter: 11 eleven ages ranging from 1 to 15 were found inside horrible conditions. the sheriffs describe the kids as looking like starving refuges and people passing through were surprised to hear this. >> it's horrible. >> it scares me because the

safety of my own children who are teenagers. you never know what can happen at any given point. >> reporter: waha and morton were arrested. >> our thanks to shelly leggett in albuquerque for that report. >> the children we understand are in the care of child protective service. no word on where the missing child from georgia was but we are told that chill was not one of the 11 found in the compound. just to be clear there. a father accused of killing his two young children, houston police say the children's mother found them stabbed to death in their own beds yesterday afternoon. the woman told police after dropping off the 8-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl at their father's apartment he called saying he was going to kill them. police say the couple had been married but recently separated. it's that time of the year.

hurricane hector has weakened slightly, still a category 3. the thing it's taking aim at hawaii. >> emergency management officials are telling people there to, of course, prepare and get their survival kits ready now. meteorologist allison chinchar has more on hector's path. good morning. >> hurricane hector winds 125 miles an hour and gusting to a 155. its movement is west about at 12 miles per hour. it's still basically in the middle of the ocean. still well away from hawaii but it's making its way in that direction. it is a category 3 storm right now, but it was just a category 4 just a few hours ago. but we are starting to see where that storm is moving. it is expected to remain a major hurricane until tuesday mid-day. then we expect some more weakening as it continues its

trek to the west. notice here. it is expected to clip the southern edge of the big island of hawaii. two similar storms in the last four years both hurricane esell and hurricane darby formed in the eastern pacific and a similar trek toward the big island and impacted that big island in 2014 and 2016 respectively. just in the last four years. now one thing to note is this particular track really just clips the very southern edge of the big island. the volcano we have been talking about for months, kilauea, is to the north of where that cone line ends up dropping off so it is expected to be outside of that cone of certainty that would end up having the direct hit. now, at this point in time, the main concern going forward really is going to be the rainfall. because even if it does not make a direct hit on the big island of hawaii, those outer bands will still provide some pretty significant moisture. at this point in time not out of the question to get two, three, four, each perhaps as much as 6 inches of rain. the good news is that going to be focused on just one of the

islands. the remainder of the islands to the north and west of that will likely get lesser amounts, say, under about 2 inches total as this system slides off to the west. >> allison chinchar, thank you. a report that a russian woman charged with spying got really close to a former trump campaign aide and we will have the details of that story in a minute. "the new york times" columnist said the president's attack against the media sheds light on his empire campaign to monopolize information. this is not a bed.

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her approach left men wondering what she is really after and sources say she bragged about her ties to russian intelligence when she was intoxicated. some reported her to law enforcement sources tell cnn. she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent after her arrest in july. her lawyer says she is not a spy and won't cut a deal with prosecutors if it means saying she is one. >> the problem is cutting a deal but if you're not an agent for a federal government you can't lie and say you are to get rid of this. >> reporter: intelligence experts see butina as trying to infiltrate gop political circles as one of the cools in moscow arsenals and vladimir putin tries to meddle in american democracy, an ongoing effort. >> we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and guide the united states. >> reporter: past russian spies

have adopted fake identities, used invisible inc.ening and coded with messages over radio transmitters but the under radar approach didn't seem to suit but butina. in 2015, she questioned then candidate donald trump about sanctions against russia at a nevada political event. >> i'm a visitor from russia. >> reporter: as an american university student, putin defended putten and claimed to be the russian campaign and sources. people who met her say she was a little too friendly and quick to start playing footsy under the table and asked men to be facebook friends. her lawyer admits her activities and contacts caught the attention of the fsb one of russia's security services. >> i think anyone who is russian has to meet with the fsb when

they go back and forth and frequently asked at the airport what they are doing in america if they have information from the fsb. >> reporter: experts say she was probably a valuable asset for russia. >> i think she would have been valuable to the russian government despite the fact she wasn't a classically trained intelligence officer like perhaps someone luike anna chapman. >> reporter: when investigators searched the home of butina and her boyfriend who has not been accused of wrongdoing they found a note and it's unclear which of them it was for. joining me is kimberly dozier of "the daily beast." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me start with the basic question. how worrying is the fact that an alleged russian spy got really close, it raps, or attempted to to a trump campaign? >> what it shows us, if she was,

indeed, directed by the russian government as the u.s. government is trying to prove, that russia understands the most important part of changing the mind of your opposition is to get to know people, to build relationships. they have several different levels of operative that reaches out in different countries to put forth the russian point of view. where butina would fall is an agent of influence rather than an official spy and that is probably why the u.s. government is not trying to make a case against her for espionage, but, instead, as than unregistered agent of foreign influence. in that role, what she would do is much like an intelligence officer, a diplomat, or a journalist, build relationships with her target audience. >> what i find interesting about this is there has been, you know, of course, no end of talk about russian meddling and we look at this as a cyberworld. this is very old school and sort

of classic in which we talk about the possibility of a person being used as a spy and a female spy in this way. president trump, as we know, does not seem to agree with his intelligence. you saw that very distinctly this week. and i'm wondering, i'm referencing, of course, the russian meddling what may be this forthcoming election, how does a community prepare or fight off these kind of attacks if the man in charge of the nation doesn't seem to be on board? >> well, it's tough for national security professionals who are laboring in the trenches trying to track down russian spying and russian influence. but as they find these plots, and as they convince agents overseas to spy for them, to have the message coming from the top of the white house, that, oh, this is all a hoax. so it's both embarrassing for the leaders who went out on thursday, the cabinet members who went out and said, yes,

russia is trying to meddle actively to this day, to then have their commander in chief go out that night to an audience and say, oh, this is all a hoax. but it's also disturbing for the people who are in the trenches who are getting originals, especially in foreign countries, to risk their lives and then they have to wonder, okay, if we find a smoking gun type evidence of something, will the president allow us to act on this? or is he too much -- is he good friends with vladimir putin and that is going to make all of our work worthless? >> the president did actually talk about the possibility of russian meddling last night when he was speaking in columbus, ohio. you got to hear how he spoke. take a listen. >> we got to stop it. we got to stop meddling. we got to stop everybody from attacking us. but there are a lot. russia is there. china is there.

hey. we are doing well with north korea but they are probably there. we got to stop everybody. >> that doesn't ring with real sincerity. and i'm wondering just what is this kind of message that we are hearing? >> well, what i hear from donald trump is this desire to preserve his two tracks. he seems to be playing the good cop track with moscow, with china, with north korea, where he tries to maintain the open door with their leaders, while using his national security team, his economics team to deliver the hammer. so that is also what i hear -- it also goes back to he is talking to his base about an election that he won and he doesn't want anything to besmirge that and that winning in 2016 is a blow to his ego.

>> you're right. it has to be noted as to the audience he is reaching out to. when it comes to the midterm elections coming up, are you concerned about, say, direct meddling to try to alter the mechanics of the vote, or is it more a concern about altering people's mindsets as they go into vote? >> you're absolutely right. i think moscow is much more sophisticated than trying to actually hack into voting machines, though there is evidence that they have tried to do that. but, really, they have already changed the game in terms of how part of america thinks towards russia, especially the part of america that supports trump and you can see on facebook, throughout social media, says that the liberals are just trying to tear moscow down and moscow is a potential ally. so those minds have already been changed and won. >> it's fascinating because i talk to so many people who support the president and they will tell you one of their greatest sources of information

is either from their friends or from the internet. clearly, the russians have figured this out? >> exactly. they know that the game that they are playing for their monopoly board people's hearts and minds and what they have been aiming for a long time. you could say, though, the u.s. has been doing the same thing, according to russia, with things like the national endowment for democracy and the u.s. talks to businessmen who are willing to talk to them who have traveled to moscow to collect information from them. from moscow's turn of view is turn-about is fair play. >> kimberly dozier, thank you. >> thank you. first lady melania trump brazie i praising lebron james for his charity work but after the president insulted the nba star on twitter.

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39 minutes past of the hour right now. first lady melania trump praised lebron james for his charity work. the thing it was in direct contradiction to her president's criticism of the nba star just hours earlier. her spokeswoman put out a statement saying this, quote. so we have got senior politics reporter from t"the huffington post" with us now, laura bassett. it seems as though she is saying, listen. what my husband thinks is not necessarily what i think exerting her independence. but this message was highly intentionally on her part, was it not? >> absolutely intentional. look. she didn't have to put out a

statement. she doesn't have to put out a statement on everything the president does and she certainly doesn't. i think ma lawn that has this be best campaign. it's her signature cause as first lady andan an anti-cyberbullying campaign. if she were to stand by and say nothing while her husband hue mi -- humiliates people by blulg them online. she has not only tried to distance herself from him and assert her independence but publicly contradict him. >> yeah, in january, she traveled separately from the president to his state of the union address which was noted. in march she talked about the criticism i don't want to say make fun of by any means but they question the authenticity of the be best campaign. she said you can criticize me all you want but i'm going to do what i know is right is exactly

what she said. it's surprising and unintentional coming out of tge bush and laura bush and obama years. historically, is it really that unusual? for a first lady to put herself out there? >> i think it's extremely unusual to have these -- it's regular contradicting statements coming from the first lady and coming from the white house. a couple of weeks ago, i'm sure you guys remember, there was reports that donald trump criticized her for watching cnn. and her press team put out a statement saying the first lady watches whatever she wants. of course, everyone remembers the jacket controversy. she wore that jacket to visit migrant children that said i don't really care, do you? her press team put out a statement saying there is no hidden message on the jacket and trump came out and said it's a message against the press and it's talking about the press. there was some speculation that

i don't really care message was about migrant childrenship i'm starting to wonder if that message was directed at her husband or about the politics of the white house in general, because she seems now intent on having her own voice and being her own person. >> do you think it would be smart for her to go to the lebron james school if she is invited? >> i think that it would be a real message. >> you're trying to figure that out, right? >> words i can't say is what it would be to her husband. >> do you think there is a space, say, for melania trump to join in some sort of charitable effort with lebron james? >> i think she should. i think if she is going to have this be best campaign and if she profess to visit migrant children at the border and saying she really cares about, you know, about schools, about all of the things she professes to scare about, sure, i think a

really nice move and way for the white house, the whole white house to extend an olive branch to this person who is deeply insulted by the president. >> so with that said, when we look at how she moves forward with the best, she has to be very intentional in that, but how does she get away from the criticism of her husband when she clearly has a very jen schwi -- genuine interest in doing something good for the children. >> i think the criticism will come as long as she stays with her husband and married to him. she is saying i support lebron james. that is pretty easy thing to say. is not saying i denounce my husband for bullying him online. until she does, that i think the criticism will keep coming. >> laura bassett, it's just so fascinating on one hand but, at the same time, she is fighting to stand on her own and thank

you, laura. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> take good care. martin? >> still to come, we are going to talk to a guest who reveals that the president's attacks on the media are actually his campaign to try to monopolize information, the president's campaign, that is. we will tell you why he finds that very worrisome next. ng it u to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... [honk, honk] >> kids: bye! >> tech vo: ...so she can save the science project. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ uhp. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪

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49 minutes past the hour. according to "new york times" op ed columnist, president trump's attacks on the press are just about his disdain for the media but need to control information

he says. >> he says the threat to democracy becomes greater if the media and trump administration cannot at least have a shared sense of information. and back with us to discuss this is cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter. you talked to david about this this morning and other news as well. good to see you by the way. >> you too. it'sen interesting way to think about the retore cal exercises when he says polls are fake are highlights certain polls he likes or attacks robert mueller, trying to control what information is acceptable. that's what david leinhart suggested in this interview. this is an especially bad week when it came to the president's campaign against independent information. here's part of what david said. >> he essentially is on a campaign against anyone who represents an independent source of information. the media, mueller's investigation, the fbi, the national security apparatus, the congressional budget office,

scientists in the case of climate change, i could go on and on. but trump essentially wants a monopoly on information and wants to attack anyone who threatens that monopoly. >> kind of an interesting framing and interesting way to think about the president's criticism of the media and criticism of the mueller et cetera investigation, et cetera. if you look at what's okay and acceptable, that might all start to make sense. >> brian, the latest tweet from the president really kind of takes it to a whole new level though, doesn't it? >> just posted something in the last few minutes, once again here attacking the press as the enemy of the people. you know, you all can read on screen for yourselves, it's pretty ugly. says the press can sew great division and distrust and also cause war. he also journalists are very dangerous and sick. look, he does continue to rachet it up a little louder every time. i think of it as a verbal form

of poison. slow acting poison. it trickles through the veins and intended to cause people not to trust what they read and see and hear. he's been pretty explit is bit that recently, saying you can't believe what you're reading and i notice one line in the rally last night that sums it up really well, he said we're doing so many things that you don't even know about it. he was saying that in a positive way to supporters saying the media is not telling you about the great things we're accomplishing. you can also view that in a negative way, about the scandals and controversies that plague his administration. but he believes the press is out to get him and he acts very much like he's in a bunker, like he's on the defense, it is one of the defining themes of this presidency. >> other presidents though have of course tried to monopolize information or control their message or their investigation of events, much more difficult in a modern world when you have social media and many more different media outlets. >> the president supported by a

pro trump media universe that could not have existed 20 years ago and did not exist ten years ago. largely it's fox news and a variety of websites that prop him up and support him almost no matter what. at the rally last night it was really telling, the president giving shout-outs to the favorite fox news host and saying we, we are winning, we are in this together. he thinks of himself almost as a part of fox news at this point, at least that's how he was talking at the rally last night. when he says enemy of the people, this is extremist rhetoric, the kind of rhetoric used by stalin and other dictators many decades ago and has its roots in an ugly part of our shared history on this planet. and so the president when he brings that language back and tries to use that language to divide people, it's going to end up being a sad chapter of his presidency. >> brian stelter, always appreciate you, thank you so much, sir. >> be sure to catch him on

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