continue all this week right here in the situation room. i'm wolf blitzer. follow me on twitter and instagram. tweet the show. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. breaking news, president trump orders more troops to the middle east as the pentagon declassifies new images to make the case that iran attacked two oil tankers. are iran and the u.s. headed for war? plus elizabeth warren takes a swipe tonight at her fellow 2020 dems. are her sharp elbows one reason she is surging in the polls? and trump cabinet secretary under fire. let's go outfront. the breaking news, the u.s. preparing to send additional forces to the middle east as we have new images just declassified tonight of what team trump says is an iranian attack. the images of the attack on two

tankers last week are detailed, close up and have only been declassified after u.s. allies refuse to accept trump's plam of iran. let me show you some of what we now have. this one a clear image taken pie a u.s. helicopter showing a revolutionary guard boat. moments after the crew removed what the pentagon said last week was this unexploded mine. that's what you see there in the circle from one of the tankers. now, there is another image what shows what the pentagon says is another left overmine and then the image of a hole. that's a hole in one of the tanker hauls from the blast. coming after a video was not enough to convince key allies including germany and japan that iran was responsible for the attack. one of the ships was even japanese. the german foreign minister said the photo was not enough and

this frustrated secretary of state mike pompeo who said just believe me it's what u.s. intelligence says. >> i wouldn't have said it if the intelligence community hadn't become convinced that this was the case. >> heed the u.s. intelligence community became convinced. the problem is the reason allies do not trust pompeo because he has under cut and questioned the u.s. intelligence community. take the death of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi which the cia concluded was ordered by the crown prince of saudi arabia. here is what mike pompeo said. >> there is no direct evidence linking him to the murder of jamal khashoggi. >> pompeo's cherry picking of when to believe u.s. intelligence mirrors that of his boss. >> i hate the crime, what's

done, i hate the cover up. and i will tell you this, the crown prince hates it more than i do. and they have vehementally denied it. >> now twh it comes to iran, team trump wants the world to blindly believe the cia. >> iran did do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat. >> no second guessing his intelligence leadership this time. kaitlan collins is outfront live outside the white house. and i want to begin with you in washington. what more are you learning about the administration's latest moves against iran tonight? >> the acting defense secretary has announced the pentagon has authorized 1,000 additional troops to the middle east for what he says is defensive purposes to address air, naval and ground based threats in the

middle east. we had a feeling this was coming because secretary of state mike pompeo said the administration was weighing all of the options here including military ones. we should note that in his statement shanahan says quote the united states does not seek conflict with iran. he says the action being taken today with the 1,000 additional troops is just to ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working in the area. but of course this comes as we are seeing pompeo say not only are they considering a range of options but the u.s. is trying to work to get allies to be on their side and convince it was iran behind the attacks. you heard pompeo saying and the president saying it, as well. the question going forward is if they are successful and able to do that. so far the president has been convinced that his maximum pressure campaign here was going to work. now you are seeing iran really resist that pressure from the trump administration. now shanahan says he made this decision here about the 1,000

additional troops in conjunction with the white house u.s. central command which made the request and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we should note that pompeo is scheduled to go to u.s. central command which oversees the military deployments in the middle east. >> thank you very much. let's go straight to tehran. how is iran responding tonight? >> reporter: hi, erin. the iranians are continues to say despite what the trump administration is putting out there that they were not behind the attacks on those tankers. at the same time a troubling development with a senior iranian official telling cnn that he believes iran and the united states are on a confrontation course and he believes it could have devastating consequences for the entire middle eastern region. the iranians are saying they are not going to back down. they don't believe president trump wants an escalation that could lead to a shooting war between the iranians and the

united states but they believe there might be people in the administration that do kind of want to push the administration into that direction. so certainly an extremely dangerous situation that is going on here in this region. at the same time also rhetoric from the iranians themselves. the chief of the general staff of iran saying if the iranians wanted to shut down the strait they could do that but said the iranians would do that in plain sight and not through the kind of tanker attacks. that would be devastating for the world oil supply. about 20% of the oil supply. i have gone there myself. it really is a very, very narrow area. it could be very dangerous if there was a confrontation there. >> i want to go to admiral william mcraven. he oversaw the raid that killed osama bin laden including the

capture of saddam hussein. admiral, i appreciate your time tonight, the latest reporting, of course, the trump administration getting ready to send more troops to the middle east. are you concerned about what seems to be a quick escalation in this currently war of words with iran? >> thanks. good to be with you. i'm not as concerned as a lot of others seem to be. the fact of the matter is we have been dealing with iran for decades and these sort of proxy attacks or attacks we have seen them before. you go back to the late '80s where we have tanker wars, mining of the straits and the military certainly u.s. navy knows how to deal with these kind of attacks by the iranians. so we'll make sure that if something like this happens that we have a measured response. i know secretary pompeo and secretary shanahan have been looking at those sorts of responses. >> so given that, i think it is

interesting you point out about the mining that happened before, mines are part of the reason that they are saying they are so confident, that this was iran and obviously they have had problems getting people to believe them given their history on other issues. they have put out 11 new high resolution photos that they say prove that iran was responsible for the attack on two tankers including the giant hole in the hull. do you have any doubt that iran was responsible? is there any doubt in your mind at all? >> i do trust the u.s. intelligence community. i certainly trust secretary pompeo and secretary shanahan. if they say that it was iran, then i think we accept their position on this. now, again, looking at those photos what you see are mines that somebody put above the water line. that's an important point. these were not underwater mines that certainly could have sunk or severely damaged the ships. this was a message either iran or somebody was sending to us to

say we have the ability to effect the shipping. this was outside the straights rr. this was in the gulf of oman. this was another signal that the iranians i think are signaling to us. >> do you under why allies -- obviously japan is refusing to accept video proof and germans are refusing to accept video proof. do you understand why there is that hesitation from allies given -- obviously, you can look at the russian meddling in the election skepticism of the u.s. intelligence community and the example with saudi arabia. do you understand why allies are skeptical? >> well, i understand why allies want the intelligence. anytime you have a situation like this, it's important for those that have the intelligence to be able to share it certainly with our allies in europe, our allies in japan and to provide the evidence that's necessary before anybody takes any sort of military action or diplomatic action. i think it is incumbent upon us

as it looks like the secretaries have done to showcase the intelligence in a way that is meaningful to our allies. >> when president trump said he wads revoking john brennan's security clearance last august, you spoke out. you wrote an op-ed and wrote in part i would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance so i can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency. i hoped when you became president you would rise to the occasion. your leadership has shown little of the qualities. you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our dhirn, humiliated us and divided us as a nation. admiral, we have now in the middle of june, ten months has your view changed? >> what i'm certainly hoping is i had the opportunity to work for president bush 43 and president obama. while i didn't agree with either

men on every issue, you know, they were men of great integrity and great character. my hope and prayers continue to be that president trump will see that integrity and character and doing what is right for the nation which i think he tries to do but i would offer that he may want to look at the examples of the two presidents that came before him and continue to do the best for this country. i will also add that we have an obligation to follow the commander in chief. it is important that we always do this. the commander in chief is the elected representative of the people of the united states. we have an obligation as military officers to follow the roo commander in chief. it's that simple. as long as it is a lawful, legal order, we have an obligation to follow it. >> obviously, i know that you

and others who have retired from the roles have felt an obligation to speak out more forcefully than those in service now. in your new book you tell the story of planning for the raid of osama bin laden and talk about sitting in the situation room with then president obama and write about a phone call you had. he said i want to wish you and your men good luck. you reply thank you mr. president. he says i want you to tell them i am proud of them. make sure you tell them that, bill. i will, sir. is he there? you reply i don't know sir but i do know that if he is there we will get him and if he's not we will come home. you write maybe i was reading too much into it but i thought the president understood the risks my men were taking and truly appreciated their courage and their patriotism. president obama says good luck, bill. thank you, mr. president you reply. you write i hesitated wondering

whether i should tell the president of the united states that i understood the difficulty of his decision and that i appreciated his leadership. has president trump shown the same ability to lead, admiral? >> well, again, erin, i don't want to comment on president trump's leadership because i never served under president trump. what i can tell you is that you have the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is absolutely one of the finest officers i ever worked with. i had a chance to meet secretary shanahan. he seems like a very good man. i know they will provide the president of the united states the best advice and council they can. it is my hope the president will do what is best for the men and women of this country. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> my pleasure. thanks. next president trump telling his supporters not to believe the polls. what happened to this man? >> i love polls. everybody knows i love polls. elizabeth warren taking on her 2020 opponents blasting them

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the president saying only fake polls show us behind the motley crew. it is far too early to be focussed on that. much work to do. make america great again as trump fires three of his own internal pollsteres after bad internal poll numbers for him leaked. this is pretty hard to call your own polls fake. national affairs correspondent for the nation and former presidential candidate rick santorum. >> the internal polls are probably not so great. i think he fired them because they leaked and maybe he feels that they were somehow responsible for that leak. and he is right that you don't worry about early polls. i ran in 20 elections. maybe with the exception of three or four, i was behind in every early poll at this point in time. i won a bunch of elections.

so the reality is there is a long way to go. the president sometimes overreacts to these things. >> i guess the truth is he is maybe the biggest -- maybe the biggest anger he had was fake polls were his own polls. >> i think someone may be trying to tell him something like you are not doing as well as you think and we have to put more into this. i'm sure he was enraged at that. we know donald trump will not tolerate coughing in front of him and bad polling. don't bring him bad polling numbers. i think the idea of firing your pollsteres because you don't like their numbers is -- >> so you know i have to say, senator, we had great enjoyment putting some of this together today. trump adores polls. he ubseszs over polls. he lives by polls and popularity contests. he has spent, in fact, 20 years

gloating about polls. here are a few times. >> the polls have been unbelievable. so i am going to form a presidential exploratory committee. when they put me in polls everyone says i should run for president. >> i'm a poll maven. i became like the all time expert on polls. >> okay. senator. a maven who believes in polls except for now. >> well, the president likes good polls. you hear him talking about those. i actually agree. i think this is probably a good thing that they're presenting him with some bad polls. he has work to do. i think he knows that. these individual polls in these states, i know when i go to the white house, is he going to win pennsylvania? i get that question all the time. my answer is ultimately, i think he will, but he is not winning pennsylvania right now.

because he doesn't have an opponent and he has a lot of work to do to explain the good things he has accomplished for the country. >> part of what is interesting about this exchange about polls is that it appears that he didn't tell the truth. he told george stephanopoulos about the leaked polls which were bad and leaked from team trump, he told him that that wasn't the case. here he is. >> i just was given a meeting with my pollster who i frankly don't believe in pollsteres. you run a campaign and whatever it is it is. i had a meeting with somebody who is a pollster and i'm winning everywhere. >> you have to wonder -- i'm curious from a psychological point of view whether he believes that now. if it were true he would be

bragging about the numbers because listen to him -- >> i love those polls when they're good. if they are no good, i don't report them. >> the los angeles times has six points up nationwide. good poll. if it weren't, i wouldn't be telling you about it. i promise. when we do badly i don't know about polls. when we are doing well i know about polls. >> so does he know that he is doing badly to both what you and the senator are saying? is he just pretending that it is fake and he can ignore it? >> i don't know what he knows to be honest with you. i mean, the "washington post" has caught him in 10,700 lies since inauguruation day. he is capable of saying what he thinks the situation deserves. we know he hates losers. i think he has to deny the polls. >> the core of the polls was that trump's internal polls

showed him losing to biden. he has been focussed on biden -- here is biden today. >> i plan on campaigning. i plan winning georgia, north carolina, south carolina. and i believe we can win texas and florida. if you look at the polling data now. >> that's aggressive, senator. but right now i will say the fox news poll shows biden leading trump 49-39. i guess that is where biden is getting that bluster. >> i hope that he spends a lot of time in the fall of 2020 in south carolina. i think that would be a really aggressive strategy, a very confident move on joe's part. i encourage him to spend time in georgia and south carolina and texas and stay away from pennsylvania and wisconsin and iowa. >> i hope he doesn't listen to you, senator. i trust he will not. i think it is good for democrats

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the fight for 2020, elizabeth warren with a tough swipe at her 2020 democratic opponents. >> i have been to a lot of places around this country. i have taken more than 2,000 unfiltered questions from folks. i'm over 30,000 selfies now. so i'm in this. here is the deal. ask yourself why i've got the time to do that and most other candidates don't? and the reason is because i'm not spending mime time behind closed doors with a bunch of millionaires. >> biden advisers telling cnn they are taking a close eye on warren's rise. a new one shows an uptick in enthusiasm for the massachusetts senator. jessica dean is out front. you have been covering the forum where eight candidates have been speaking, warren among them.

when you looked around the room and watched the -- gauged the response, what was the energy like for warren compared to others? >> it is interesting because the crowd was told you don't applaud too much, don't show favoritism. we are here to listen to what the candidates have to say. there was a clear energy when elizabeth warren walked into that room. she was very comfortable on that stage. this is the thing we have seen from elizabeth warren. she talked about it herself in that bit that you showed that she has done so many of these town halls. she is very comfortable talking about her plans of dh we know she has many and talking about policy proposals and always no matter what the question is being able to navigate her answer back to what she wants to tell voters about her plans and policies. now, we also saw joe biden at the event earlier in the day, as well. this was the first cattle call type event that he had done with multiple candidate. he has been kind of striking out on his own until now.

this as elizabeth warren is rising and hearing reporting from my colleague jeff zeleny about biden's team keeping an eye. they really believe that she is eating into bernie sanders' support. they are dismissing reports that they are like singularly focussed on that, that they want to keep forging ahead with his strategy which is to make it all about donald trump and to make the case that he is the person to take on donald trump in 2020. >> thank you very much. now let's go to basil michael. what do you make of warren slamming her opponents for specifically not being out there as much because they are too busy trying to raise money for millionaires? >> it's typical of someone looking at her opponent, someone who has been leading in the polls and hitting him on his rose garden strategy. he hasn't showed up as much.

he started to do that a little bit now. there seems to be vulnerability in the most recent polls. if i look at where elizabeth warren has come from now overtaking bernie sanders, if you are a democrat and you are a little concerned whether it is age -- i don't always subscribe to that. if you are concerned about age, concerned about baggage, here is elizabeth warren who seems to be a champion of the left who is an actual democrat. you get that, too. so i see her as a really interesting and important alternative. there are others certainly, but an alternative -- >> what do you make -- one thing that is interesting when you bring up age, age is a fair question. age could be an issue. she is about to turn 70. she is not young but she conveys energy and enthusiasm and vibrancy that perhaps biden and sanders do not. >> i think she absolutely does. she has a sense of enthusiasm

and energy about her when you see her speak. i think people resonate with that tlmpt is the sense that she has a compelling message. she sort of deconstructs the idea that socialism is a -- she talks about how the government is an important institution that helps build bridges and road and helps to build businesses. i think that that's a message that resonates with the progressives. she was talking to a progressive audience today. there is this wing of the party that you think bernie sanders is going to get them because he's the far left candidate, but elizabeth warren has credentials, too. she is a big threat to that race. >> if i can add very quickly to that, the interesting dynamic between those two, sanders and warren is that sanders is very good at articulating the problem. what we have seen with elizabeth warren is she is about

solutions. >> we see enthusiasm she is ticking up, biden and sanders ticking down. i got an e-mail today from the pocahontas pack referring to what the president is going to do. i have to say i sort of laughed when i got it. the point is they are going to continue to try to capitalize on the issue with the ancestry. here is what the president said. >> now she's a pocahontas is doing better. i would love to run against her. >> donald trump is going to do whatever he thinks helps donald trump. i think the way that we win is to go out and talk to people all across this country about our plans for the future. >> so will this -- he is going to push it and push it. he still tweets about it. he is not involved with a pack. this whole pocahontas.

she is not biting right now. donald trump keeping it professional. >> she shouldn't bite at this right now. i think it's an indication that the trump campaign is apparently worried about elizabeth warren. and i think they should be because the polls show she beats donald trump just like bernie sanders does or joe biden does or kamala harris does. even pete buttigieg is beating donald trump for the presidency right now. i think the other part is that elizabeth warren has a message that sort of transcends where donald trump is going. she doesn't have to go foig on this turf because the democratic party vote is very litigated. it came up last year. trump will raise it no matter what. >> he will hope it is a general election issue. >> the party faithful have moved on from that. the people most offended by this probably would be native americans and they are likely

not to support donald trump. i don't think it will be a big issue against her. >> how worried is joe biden about elizabeth warren right now? >> he should be taking it seriously. of course, there is a lot of time. we know that. we will start to see these go up and down throughout the rest of the cycle. he should be worried. and i don't know if it's going to show up on the debate stage. i'm not sure. i expect that biden is going to try to sort of continue to oo put sort of poke fingers at donald trump to preview the general election. >> his opponents will go right after him. >> thank you both very much. next the u.s. reportedly escalating attacks on russia's power grid, but the united states president donald trump was not fully briefed. do his own aides trust him with classified information about russia. and the president's chief of staff told to get out after he did what i just did.

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and intel chiefs reportedly kept him out of the loop about escalating american cyber attacks on russia's electrical power grid. why? according to the "new york times" the reason is there was fear that the president's reaction would be to overrule them on these attacks or to discuss the attacks with foreign officials including russians. former cia operative. it is pretty stunning the reporting here that they didn't tell him everything that they were doing because they were worried that he would tell the russians themselves or make them stop doing it. could you imagine a skacenario like this? >> never. in all my years in intelligence and around it, i have never heard of an operation intentionally kept away from the president. it just doesn't happen ever. i know of no circumstances. i'm talking 50, 60 years that it has ever occurred. we had a channel we thought something was particularly

sensitive that involved the security of the united states we can send it right to the white house. it went to the situation room and landed on the president's desk by law. so for the pentagon or cyber command here whoever kept this away from the president is stunning. truly, it is. >> what does it tell you that they would make such a move and keep president trump intentionally in the dark about details of what they were doing aggressively against russia? >> erin, they don't trust him. it's as simply as that. he talks about operations in maur l mar-a-lago. and on and on and on. if you if have anything to do with russia in the government whether the fbi or pentagon, it's self defensive to keep it out of the president's hands. >> so if he knew details about these attacks and shared them, which, of course, he didn't know the details. i'm remembering back to remember the sensitive operation in syria

and he shared information with the russian foreign minister which apparently israel was worried could have put lives at risk. there have been instances where information was shared with him which upset the intelligence community greatly. if he knew the details and overruled the intelligence community or shared the details in any way with a foreign official, how bad would that be? >> it's terrible. these things are top secret. the hacking codes are supposed to be clandestine. now that the russians know that there is malware in their power grids they can find it. it's going to setback the national security agency, pentagon and everybody else. these steps are well tightly held only to be shared in the white house with the president, national security adviser. now we know. what really disturbs me is not trusting the president. i have never seen that before.

i wonder what is going on inside the government. >> thank you very much. and next, is elaine chow the president's transportation secretary using her official position to help her family's business? >> i was so pleased that i was able to bring my father on air force one with the president. >> and the cough that caught president trump offguard. (paul) great.

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business on display is raising more than a few eyebrows. >> she has attempted to use and has used government office to help her father and his business. >> in 2017, elaine chao used department of transportation as back drop for multiple interviews for chinese media like this one her father at her side. and showing off the lapel pin he received flying on air force one. >> my father and i travelled on air force one. that's always an experience. and i was so pleased that i was anyo able to bring my father on air force one with the president. >> reporter: the family company is based in the u.s. but the company builds ships in china, hires workers in kmienchina. her sister sits on the board of the state-run bank of china and even though there is no evidence

elaine chao used her office to influence government policy to benefit her family's business she has repeatedly travelled to china for major company events. several chinese government and business experts tell cnn her chinese expert robert lawrence says though there has been a recent crackdown on corruption in china, personal relationships remain very important. >> the perception is that if you're seen in the company of powerful people or relatives of powerful people in china, that is good for your business relationships. >> a spokesman for eileen chow says the transportation secretary has no connection to the foremost group but the foremost group certainly helped make her rich. chow and her husband mitch mcconnell receive between 5 and $25 million in gifts from chow's parents according to 2008 senate financial disclosures. catapulting mcconnell to becoming one of the richest members in the senate.

eileen chow's family donated more than a million dollars to mcconnell's political pursuits and elaine chow could inherit more wealth as for most shipping continuing to flourish making scenes like this all the more troubling according to law professor and government ethics expert kathleen clark. >> it's a clear cut violation. >> clark says regardless of the perception in china, this use of office violates u.s. government ethics rules specifically this one. an endorsing organization's products or persons. >> executive branch employees may not use government branch positions to suggestion the agency or any part of the executive branch endorses organizations, products or people. >> if secretary chow did not violate that raeg regulation, t regulation pameans nothing. any government official can endorse any enterprise associated with family member. >> in or out of public office,

visit after visit it's eileen chow that appears to be the most important unofficial representative in china. she accompanied her father or sister to events meeting top chinese official. in 2008 when she served as labor secretary, chow bought her husband to visit the premiere. in 2015 she's sitting prominently with a party leader and introduced as the former labor secretary and the meeting was to promote mutual beneficial cooperation between the foremost group. a new watchdog group headed by democrats is suing the department of transportation for any agency documents that mention the chow family business. several house democrats are concerned about chow's use of her office but for now, the department of transportation is calling the attacks political. an attempt to fabricate a web of old tired enywhile demonstratin

deep cultural misunderstandings. chow, the spokesman says, has done nothing wrong. >> and erin, when asked if the chinese could interpret eileen chow's behavior as an endorsement of her family's business, they say we don't speculate on who interprets what in china and went on to call some of the media attention racist stating if her last name was smith, none of this would raise a question. erin? >> drew, thank you. and next, jeannie on how to stop president trump in his tracks. >> let's do that over. he's coughing in the middle of my answer. i don't like that, you know.

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>> reporter: if you have to wipe your nose, don't do it near this guy and if you cough during an interview. >> at some point i hope they get it. it's a fantastic financial statement. >> reporter: prepare to be thrown out like a used kleenex. >> let's do that over. he's coughing during the middle of my answer. if you have to cough, leave the room. >> reporter: not an intern but acting chief of staff. on the bright side, kim jong-un would have had him killed. a former campaign staffer told "the washington post" it's something they are warned not to do. >> shall not cough. >> reporter: imagine how hillary would fair. >> can i get a cough drop or something? every time i think about trump i get allergic. >> reporter: a lot of people kept coughing up the coughing conspiracy theory. >> that mull va knee whe was tr

him up about financial statements. >> don't talk about how you're broke. >> reporter: anthony tells of the time he had a sore throat while meeting with president trump aboard air force one. the president banished him to the sick bay for a shot. >> there i am traveling on the most famous plane in the world. my pants are down and i'm taking a shot of penpenicillin. >> reporter: sniffing okay, though? trump has a tendency to order things out. >> get this thing out of here, will ya? >> reporter: from teleprompters to crying babies. >> you can get the baby out of here. >> reporter: but at least he's no, when a young man's coughing irritated him, off with his head. will president trump keep his head the next time someone coughs?

g jeannie mose, cnn new york. "a.c. 360" starts right now. >> good evening, john beer fna anderson. anderson lost his mother this morning so we begin tonight but honoring her with a beautifuler. we feel his loss deeply here but anyone that had the chance to see them together knows how lucky he is to have the memories he has and to be the best part of the story he was kind enough to leave us tonight. ♪ ♪ gloria vanderbelt my mom lived her entire life in the public eye. born in 1924 her