in the same place as late bronze age squared stone walls from the time of the legendary king priam shimon was forced by this after all he'd already found such walls at another location. he wrote in his diary this stone period confronts me with much that i'm unable to explain. this reason i consider it necessary to present everything in his detail the way it's possible in the hope that one or the other my esteemed colleagues might be able to shed some light on those areas which remain obscure to me. the mound of death. nine cities were built here one on top of the other layer by layer higher and higher at three thousand the a tale of human second the most important city troy one was established five thousand years ago in the early bronze age five hundred years later came troy to the first flourishing metropolis a thousand years on troy six was built known today as home as it was followed by troy seven the last city of importance was troy nine the hellenistic roman town it existed through to the fourth century a.d. . the schliemann trends cuts right across the entire amount in carrying out

we know today that shimon got it wrong the residence he discovered dates back to around two thousand five hundred b.c. and not as he thought to thirteen hundred b.c. here a turkish archaeologist is documenting what had confused for the month the fortress wall with a metre high larry of burnt clay shima knew that home as troy had gone up in flames of troy but also been razed to the ground time and again before that. that last troy six prime city dating back to the thirteenth century b.c. based on the latest scientific findings this is how artist christophe hausner envisages the city the palace area with a large nohant town and a population of around ten thousand. the massive fortification four metres wide and six metres high topped by clay breaks and mighty towers a sophisticated architectural design. the new head of excavations management kaufman is an expert on the bronze age and on a toad he is familiar with sites like this from the hittite period now a new adventure is beginning for troy and the documentation of its history. previously attributed solely to the greek mainland marga

shimon is with us. we now know 10 people confirmed dead, nine of those students, one a teacher. >> it's now 10 dead. remember the police and sheriff there saying at the press conference it was anywhere from 8 to 10. we're now being told by law enforcement that it's in fact ten. nine students and one teacher is what we're being told. we're also being told -- given more information about these explosive devices that law enforcement and police are concerned about. it appears to be pipe bombs and pressure cookers that were found at the scene, at the school and also around that area that has police urging the community that if she see anything suspicious, they should call 911. certainly grim news out of there, wolf, in that we have ten dead in what is really just another tragic, tragic situation here. really, the other concern here, as we've been saying, is going to be these explosive devices. also, pipe bombs generally, as we know, are not difficult to make. pressure cookers are not difficult to make. these

let's bring in shimon prokupecz in washington with what you are seeing there, shimon. >> that's right, john. certainly in reading what don junior has testified to, you know, it's pretty lengthy in terms of the sheer number of pages of transcripts here, and it's clear that don junior was sort of tricked here by the russians in some way. this meeting, he thought, was going to be about perhaps some dirt on hillary clinton and then quickly evolved into something about adoptions and the magnitsky act, and it seems, at least he's trying to distance himself concerning matters whether or not he knew that this was going to come up. and then as you said, john, concerning the statements that eventually did, that were eventually issued by the white house and others concerning the nature of this meet, an issue that is now before the special council and something that is under investigation. don junior had this to say when asked about whether or not he knew what kind of detail the president he may have provided and edits he made to the statement. he said that essentially he wasn't sure, but to the

is that what you're referring to, shimon? >> that's exactly right. we were told by law enforcement lfs so there was some concern, and kind of common practice in these kinds of situations where law enforcement goes through. the shooter may have taken a car there, so they go through that. there may be a bag he left behind at the school that they're going through. they may have seen something suspicious there. that seems to be what they're indicating here. they have some concern that there may be some explosive devices here, that there are ieds, is how some folks described it to us. this is what law enforcement says. while it is contained they are still going through the process of going through that entire school to really make sure it's safe. >> just to use layman's terms, tom fuentes, it could be booby-trapped. >> this is a situation that comes up. why do the searches take so long? why does it take so long to be able to clear that building completely? that's because law enforcement has to be very cautious, very meticulous with every door they open, d

shimon, thank you very much as well. >>> our senior legal analysts and former u.s. attorney, preet bharara is joining us. what stands out to you from our most recent reporting? if you're investigating these payments, what avenues do you want to explore? >> you want to explore every avenue, because it's kind of extraordinary. i want to continue the caution of the reporters who were talking a minute ago, shimon and kara, saying there's no proof of illegal activity or quid pro quo, but it's fairly extraordinary given the lead up to the election and after the election, these allegations and accusations that there may have been collusion. it's the word the president likes to use and rail about. if true, having money coming from directly from a russian oligarch, coming from vladimir putin, to have money from that oligarch put directly into a lawyer's account, and that lawyer being the personal attorney for the president of the united states, you want to know what the purpose of that payment was, what was the services that were render ed to justify that payment. it's a lot

thank you, shimon. there a lot going on. the story is a little complicated. want to bring in dana bash and david shallion. good evening to both of you. the question about a huge payment made by a u.s. company linked to michael cohen, president trump's long-time fixer after the election, this is explosive reporting. >> without a doubt. it's not welcome news for michael cohen, clearly. and it's not welcome news for the president's legal team here. i mean, let's just acknowledge what it is at its very base. we are now seeing reporting of some russian money making its way in some form or another to the person who was identified as donald trump's fixer, one of his closest confidantes, and who the president was just touting as his attorney less than a month ago while standing on air force one. >> dana, what are your thoughting on this? what do you think we're going to hear from the president about any of this? >> you know, unclear as his lawyer sees it, he is focusing where he should be on north korea and on iran. last time we heard that, the president sent out fou

we're getting some of that information from shimon's reporting. the main question is going to be motive. why did this person do this? i would imagine they're also going to be talking to the suspect about where the information came from, not only where did you get firearms but where did you get this information? >> they're able to interview the person. he is alive, they can interview him and if he cooperates, that puts them that much ahead of the game. in a situation where a shooter takes his own life and you don't have that information. it's key to go back and figure out where did the person get the weapons. that not only helps this particular investigation but it will help officers as they try to create this profile that will help prevent other attacks in the future. what was the mechanism to get the weaponry used today to kill people. unfortunately on the i.e.d. side as we look at terrorist attacks and other incidents around the world, a lot of this information isn't sophisticated that you have to be a skilled bombmaker to put something together

shimon i'll start with you. what can you tell us about this? >> yeah, hey don. mueller investigation has questioned a runner oligarch. they questioned about hundred of thousand of dollars made to michael cohen in 2011. the payment went from vekselberg, a firm linked to vekselberg called columbus nova, a financial company out of new york. it's run by vekselberg american andrew trader. michael avenatti posted documents where he alleged that a half million dollars was paid to cohen beginning in january of 2011. last month, back to where viktor vekselberg gets into this, trump administration placed him on sanctions for the russian internal revenue service. now as to what the payments were that related to cohen and the company is unknown. we've reached out to cohen and vekselberg and both have not responded to our questions. what's significant here as you pointed out is you have money coming from a u.s. company that is linked to this russian man who has been sanctioned who the u.s. government says interfered in our election that was going to michael cohen, certainly

. >>> we have nia malika henderson, jamil jafer, and shimon prokupecz. the president and his supporters have used this word spy, right? reports say informant. that's the word they're using. what do we know about this fbi source? >> right, so, look, i think what is going on here basically is the president is trying to say that the fbi implanted -- used the word implanted, planted some kind of a spy into the campaign to try and soak up information and then that information was somehow then relayed to the fbi and perhaps maybe folks at the obama white house, which is completely ludicrous and not true. what did happen here is there was a concern, a valid counterintelligence investigation by the fbi that was raising concerns about russians that were trying to infiltrate the campaign. and they were using people, there was concern by the fbi that they were using people like carter page to infiltrate the campaign, using people like george papadopoulos to infiltrate the campaign. and so the fbi based on reports introduced a source, someone that they have known, s

shimon, what jumps out from you? and let's start at the beginning with donald trump, jr., deciding yes, i will take this meeting. >> reporter: it's clear from the questioning that we read through in these transcripts and we've all been reporting is that this meeting was intended to sort of drum up dirt on hillary clinton. you had a russian lawyer who was promising essentially dirt on hillary clinton, and then it went into something else about the magnitsky act and sanctions. the committee questioned donald trump, jr., about what he saw the purpose of this meeting was about. let me read to you from the transcript what he had to say, what is it that specifically you were interested in getting out of the meeting? he says, i was interested in listening to information. and then the question was, information on hillary clinton? and donald trump, jr., answers yes. information on hillary clinton that came potentially from the russian government, he's asked. again, he said i had no way of assessing where it came from, but i w

i want to bring in my colleague crime and justice report shimon prokupecz and josh campbell as well. shimon, starting with you, the president has said repeatedly to many of his aides skpal liand a collusion is dead, it's a dead issue. there you have a trump campaign aide saying they seem to have something on it, at least they're intent on going down that path. >> the focus, according to michael caputo, was on russian collusion, and he commented on just how well prepared the fbi agents were and the u.s. attorney and just a mound of information they had. and here's what he said about that to anderson cooper last night. >> i think they're very focused on russian collusion. i think they believe that they'll get to something. they didn't tell me not to talk about this, they asked me not to interfere in the investigation as i exited the room, and i really don't want to give too much details because i feel that interferes with the investigation. however, they're talking about wikileaks, they're talking about d. d.c., all the stuff you would suspect they're looking into, and i'm concerned fo

shimon, how significant was this?reporter: a pretty stunning development here in that the judge really challenging the special counsel, the prosecutors there today. this was a hearing brought by paul manafort's attorney seeking to dismiss some of these charges, and really stunning words from the prosecutor here, judge ellis. he is known to be somewhat conservative in the eastern district of virginia. and let me just tell you, get right to what he said here. here's how it went. basically the judge, in response to something the prosecutor had said, told him, you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud case. bank fraud prosecutors basically saying the prosecutors were interested in manafort because of what he could provide that would lead potentially to trump's prosecution or impeachment. that's what you're really interested in, the judge said to the prosecutor, and then he went on to really say -- kind of review what manafort's attorneys have been arguing all along in that this case had nothing to do with coll

one more point about shimon's good insight. i've done -- i've sat across the table from mueller and on the same side of the table in litigation. and he's totally closed mouth. it is the exception to the rule. and, you made a great point, we don't know what evidence may be coming out on obstruction or collusion. so fasten your seat belt, there could be more. >> or none of the above. add it to the unknown of the day or the year or the century. >>> the middle east on the brink. iran directly attacks targets in israel. israel answers back. we'll take you there live in this crucial moment in the middle east. what if your skin could light up the room? new aveeno® positively radiant sheer daily moisturizer. lightweight hydration for positively radiant skin that lasts. aveeno®. naturally beautiful results® searching for answers may feel overwhelming. so start your search with our teams of specialists at cancer treatment centers of america. the evolution of cancer care is here. learn more at cancercenter.com/experts parts a and b and wa

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shimon, thank you for the reporting. abby, thank you very much. >>> let's digest all of this with my panel, julie hirschfield, matt lewis and asha. asha, as the lawyer on this panel, there's a lot to get to here including the scope which giuliani says is narrowed if they do this interview with the president, but this is a clear shift in legal strategy and a clear pitting of james comey's honesty against the president's honesty. let's listen to rudy giuliani talking about comey this morning. >> wednesday night we received a communication from them. now, we did go through like five letters. we didn't get a response. then they sent us a response. i can't go into detail, but narrowing the subjects for questioning down to about two. you get a big liar like comey, a big liar like mccabe in the fbi, a guy with a conflict of interest from day one on the hillary investigation, which is why he's lying to cover his ass, of course you get that. you get bad people in the fbi. >> all right. so asha, what do you make of that, that this

cnn's kaitlan collins and shimon prokupecz are here. let's start at the white house.t are you hearing from trump's latest attack on his attorney general? >> reporter: this is just a repeat of what the president has said before, that he wishes that he'd picked someone else as his attorney because of jeff sessions' decision to recuse himself from overseeing the russia investigation, something that has long plagued the president and something that he has never gotten over in this relationship and this goes back to trey gowdy's comment where he sympathized with the president and he understood his frustration and trey gowdy was asked about the new york times report that described in great detail a meeting last march after he'd made the decision to recuse himself after that he didn't disclose he'd met with officials. right after jeff sessions had recused himself, he flew down to palm beach after the president had not been taking his calls and thinking he would be discussing immigration and when he got down there it was a different story. the president was angry, berated him

shimon first went to tel aviv it was a modern city that reminded him of the land. founded in one thousand and nine it was a piece of europe in the middle east administered by the british. both jews and arabs were officially stateless adults or jerusalem as the holy sites. for the jews it was the historic eternal home arabs who are now the majority in palestine but the jews proverbial longing for zion remained. three centuries before danny and tells family have joined the small jewish presence in jerusalem he grew up in a member all cosmopolitan household speaking hebrew french the dinner and arabic. many young arabs accompany jewish part of the city because of the cafes the dance clubs and the cinemas. but. in one thousand twenty six denny's parents estancia one gel founded a small bakery with twenty five workers jews and arabs danny built the business up to become one of israel's largest bakeries to hand it was not just a factory but a home with jews and arabs working side by side. the history of israel is also the story of danny and he lived out his parents' trai

i want to bring in shimon prokupecz who covers the investigation for us, the mueller investigation for us right now. any sense where they are in the negotiations, you know, between the mueller team and the president's new legal team on this interview. president keeps on saying he loved it, his lawyer saying i'm not sure if we can believe that. it is a good political argument to say i can do it, but my lawyers say no. where do things stand right now? >> i think it is fair to say, you're absolutely right. this is a political argument for him. the witch-hunt, this whole idea he doesn't want to -- his lawyers don't want to do what he wants to do. but we know that negotiations are under way. things drastically changed after the michael cohen raid. he felt it was extremely unfair. it caught his team, the president's legal team off guard. but the bottom line is, john, and really that this investigation cannot come to a close without the president's participation. it is clear that the special counsel wants to talk to him, the fbi agents there, the prosecutors there, want to talk to him, right?

further with facebook executives and so on in-depth and this is for people who are watching this where shimon want to more in-depth investigation the mr slightly characteristically talked about i politically was on facebook i may be the most modest user of facebook in the room. but our committee is not modest in any way we are celebrating this week g.d.p. our but i do want to mention that g.d.p. are in my view and we have the opportunity here is not something that will impact entirely on your business model and i think you know this. privacy is essential also and there's a reason i mention privacy is because there is a regulator a framework here and i want to mention something very obvious you're not in the congressional hearing you've come to the european union and there's a big difference and the difference mentioned by some of my colleagues i want to make very explicit and that is that we are here in terms of regulation and the united states is here and this gap is very obvious it's obvious in our because the agreements is obvious in the day to day transactions we have between the continen

cnn shimon prokupecz starts us off. new information at the one-year mark. what are the big questions? >> reporter: john, you hit it right there, right on point. the biggest question is regarding this subpoena. will the president voluntarily submit to an interview with the special counsel, or are they going to have to take that extreme measure and subpoena him? certainly the president's lawyers, rudy giuliani, saying they have no right to do that. but that's not necessarily true. that is really the ultimate thing now, because that seems to be the next, at least, big step as it relates to the president. you know, what we keep forgetting here is that mueller's investigation is much larger than most of us really talk about, because it involves russians, right? there is an entire investigation that centers around russians, that centers around what people in russia were doing to interfere in this election. and the president certainly could be seen as a witness in that investigation and, therefore, mueller could argue that that's why he's needed. certainly the pre

let's go to our crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz. what are you learning?it clearly indicates that prosecutors and special counsel seem to be kind of done with george papadopoulos. they just filed this within the last hour saying they are ready for him to be sentenced. they're asking the court to order an investigative report. this is standard practice in these kind of cases where they complete a report that then goes to the judge and the judge will ultimately decide what his sentencing will be. keep in mind he's been cooperating for some time with the special counsel. but the fact that now these prosecutors are telling the court that we are now ready for him to be sentenced indicates that his cooperation is pretty much complete. it doesn't mean they're completely done with him but it seems to indicate that the information he has been providing has now probably no longer needed and he is essentially done with his cooperation. >> let's bring in dana bash. this is a significant development, if in fact they're ready to sentence him. we have no idea what senten

let's go to cnn's shimon prokupecz live in washington. the notion of a subpoena -- the notion of a subpoena floated in a meeting between the investigators and the president's lawyers. >> that's right, john. this meeting was about whether or not the special counsel would get an opportunity to question the president, his investigators and the fbi agents want to question the president. that is very apparent in all of our reporting and the idea of a subpoena certainly as you guys have been saying all morning would definitely escalate things here, and it would lead to a big legal showdown, all of the way up to the supreme court. the president's attorneys really do believe that they have a shot at preventing this. the president seemingly thinks that he does not have to sit down with the special counsel and it appears based on all of our reporting that he is less likely, at least at this point, to voluntarily submit to questions. the idea of a subpoena would certainly, certainly escalate. he would, perhaps, take this all of the way up to the sup

shimon prokupecz, thank you. joining me now adam schiff, the ranking member on the committee. what do you think of the last 48 hours and the credibility of the united states and the white house after everything we've seen from rudy giuliani in the last two days? >> that's the thing that stands out is the fundamental dishonesty of the president of the united states. that goes to the credibility of our country, we are in the middle of complicated issues, but in the country and internationally, the summit coming up with kim jong-un, we have an important trade discussion going on with the eu and china right now. we have the continuing situation in syria and iran. and who can trust anything that the president says? he lies every other day. the thing is you know he lies because he is contradicting himself. it's not a matter of him saying something we then have to prove is untrue. he said the exact opposite thing a mere matter of sometimes hours or days before. so i think the credibility of the presidency has never been at a lower point and that undermines everything we're trying to

shimon, help us understand why this matters. >> it matters for one reason, john. we reported that the mueller team has been looking at foreign influence, russian influence in the campaign, and an aspect of that is money. was russian money flown into the campaign or flowing into any people who perhap wrs soes were associated with the president? a concern is that victor veklesburg, who has now been sangctioned for interference, there's concern there may have been money exchanged here perhaps for influence. that is why the fbi and the special counsel have take an look at it. this company in new york, columbus nova, which is linked to viktor vekselberg, the ceo is a course of of viktor. they were seen together as the trump inauguration. so all of these sort of links, these coincidences perhaps, have raised some suspicion among investigators. that's why they started looking at these connections and also at the money that ultimately went to michael cohen. >> shimon, one more quick question. when michael avenue nanetti say payments were after the daniels' payment, that's

let's go to shimon prokupecz. what are you hearing?early a key move here by the special counsel. it signals now perhaps they are done with george papadopoulos and his cooperation. he's been providing them information for months now, cooperating with them. just within the last hour the special counsel's office pilefia status report, that they are ready for him to be sentenced, that they are ready in about 30 days or so. this indicates, as i said, his cooperation is for the most part complete and whatever information he has been providing to the special counsel has likely come to an end. at the sentencing i think what will happening is that we'll learn exactly just how he's been cooperating, perhaps the prosecutors will put out a letter saying just what kind of information he's been providing, which will ultimately affect the type of sentence that he receives from the judge. you know, brooke, this is just another sign. we have the kushner news today and now this today that is seems that the special counsel is moving through some of these

shimon, thank you. >>> and more on the breaking news. joining us, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. and as you know, ty cobb said in an interview with -- in a interview with mueller is still on the table, but you know rudy giuliani said interview with the president would have to be a maximum of two to three hours around a narrow set of questions. do you think mueller should agree to giuliani's terms? >> there is no way based on my experience as a federal prosecutor and state attorney general that he should agree to two or three hours maximum for this interview. it should go as long as is necessary for him to be satisfied that donald trump is answering his questions. he's submitted 49 questions that give trump a road map to the topics. but not the follow-up questions. and here is the basic truth. the president of the united states has boxed himself into a corner. because he has lied repeatedly and consistently in public and robert mueller will ask questions about why he fired james comey, why he gave a false statement

this all ties into the "the new york times" reporting that shimon just laid out because "the new yorking that the president tried to get sessions to unrecuse himself from the russia probe because of the issues there causing him to recusing himself is reason for mueller to look into obstruction of justice here, not just with the firing of james comey, but with how the president has handled jeff sessions, legally what are the obstacles here for the president? >> so there are a couple of things that this story raises. first, of course, is jeff sessions did, in fact, do the right thing. the guidelines that he is under as a justice department employee require him to recuse himself from an investigation where it is of a campaign that he was a senior member of. he has no choice but to follow the regulations and he's doing that properly. the president really has no business asking him to essentially violate the code of federal regulations governing recusals and asking him to quote/unquote, unrecuse himself. the president is out of bounds asking recusal -- unrecusal from the recused attorney g

. >> shimon, thanks for that reporting. no comment yet from cohen or vikselberg. we have this statement from columbus nova's general counsel -- i can confirm that the company is 100% owned and controlled by americans. any suggestion that at any point in time viktor vikselberg or any of his companies owned or exercised any control over columbus nova is patently untrue. with all that in mind, are the revelations a big coincidence or problem for the president? we discuss next. ♪ over... hey, want to try it? ok here you go... over... under... hey whoa, pop, pop... your shoe's untied. ♪ ensure he's well taken care of, even as you build your own plans for retirement. see how lincoln can help protect your savings from the impact of long-term care expenses at lincolnfinancial.com. or a c-anything-o. but i've got an idea sir. get domo. it'll connect us to everything that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse crew. give us the data we need. in one place, anywhere we need it. help us do our jobs better. with do

by august 19, when shimon peres arrived in oslo for a prearranged official visit, the deal was virtuallyse. i feel extremely privileged to have been able to watch truly arch enemies coming together, with a little help from us. i want to express my congratulations and praise for the courage and the vision displayed by the israeli and palestinian leadership, and for the crucially helpful role played by norway. i mean, we have to remember that this was life and death for them. but, in order to do that, you have to have strong leadership, and i still maintain that you had that on both sides at the time. in oslo, private celebrations for the couple who helped bring about today's historic middle east accord. i'm a true believer in passionate diplomacy. it is never wrong to bring people together. norwegian diplomat mona juul, who tried to bring peace to the middle east. next to kenya, and the story of the late dame daphne sheldrick, the pioneering conservationist who, in the 1980s, became the first person to rear successfully orphaned baby african elephants. in 2016, she spoke to witness. we kn

and shimon prokupecz has been following. he doing at trump tower and why did mueller want to talk to him? >> that is a great question. and the people that we talked to said that they were there to discuss u.s. and russia relations, how to better the relations. now the question is why did they feel the need to have these discussions with michael cohen who, as you you've said was the personal attorney to the president and what would his role be in bettering any relationship with any country is not clear. but what is interesting in the two guys and they were both questioned about the special counsel, by fbi agents, is because if you follow this money trail, this is what is interesting, now viktor vekselberg is this billionaire with close ties to vladimir putin. he shows up at trump tower, he shows up at the inauguration and his cousin there andrew intraitor donated to the inauguration and hired michael cohen and paid him half a million dollars for a contract. all of that is something the special counsel and fbi agents have foun

let me bring back shimon prokupecz. what are you learning? >> the sheriff's office releasing new information saying that the shooter has now been charged. he's charged with capital murder charges. i'll go ahead and read what the statement they put out. they've officially identified him -- >> this is a mug shot. >> he's a white male, 17 years of age, being held on capital murder with no bond. they say that additional charges may follow. so there you go. he's now booked and as we can see, there is his photo of him and he's facing capital murder charges. >> let's go to josh campbell, who used to work at the fbi and does law enforcement analysis for us. josh, obviously right now law enforcement in and around santa fe high school are concerned about the fact that there may be accomplices they're interviewing two people, but they also want to make sure that there isn't anyone else out there and in addition to that, their desire to execute search warrants on the property of the suspected shooter is complicated by the fact that he is apparently wired

the left did not deliver a solution. >> in oslo there was certain move inspired by shimon peres, if heis waiting for a crack to appearing in the ceiling and parachute a baby hugging a -- i never, never led people into illusion. i i never said we can make -- i said we will do our best to reach an agreement with the palestinians because they're our neighbors. a person cannot choose his parents, and a nation cannot choose its neighbors. they are whoever they are, so we will try our best to see whether they're right for it and we'll know what to dive they're not -- to do if they're not. when i lost election less than two years every won, it was not because i lost the right. the right wing was different, with different position to start with. it's because after we ended camp david and talk about it in the book -- i tried to convince our people, there is no -- for the present time but that shouldn't paralyze zionism. zionism was based on the idea we take our fate in our hand. try to cooperate with whoever is ready to cooperate but weed nor perillized if they are not ready to acting to with u

we have new reporting on that from shimon prokupecz on our justice beat and shimon, you're talking toour sources and asking them, is the president right? what are they saying? >> quite frankly, poppy, everyone we have been talking to about this has said that the president is just wrong. the notion that somehow the fbi implanted, planted someone inside the campaign to spy on the campaign is just not true according to several people we have been talking to. you know, just think about this, poppy, the motinotion that we h at cnn had to call folks and try to explain to them what the president is saying, the accusations that the president is making, and they're having to refute it does not put these officials in the best spot that they want to be. they are taking issue with it. there is an issue, this notion, the idea that they put someone inside the campaign, that law enforcement or intelligence officials planted someone inside the campaign, they're telling us it is just ludicrous. this is an informant, someone that was providing information to the fbi, to the cia, we're told, as well, th

as shimon and his team inject a new causal secretions of an i.b.s. patient onto a section of healthy intestinal wall. as seen under the microscope the neural cells respond with unusual intensity. we was surprised at how vigorously and quickly they were activated. this suggests that the mucosal secretions of i.b.s. patients contain substances that cause the neural cells to go into overdrive. the researchers have found enzymes in the secretions that initially caused the gut neurons to become more active and then less active again this could help explain the variation in the intensity of irritable bowel symptoms although many questions remain unanswered the researchers hope their results may one day lead to new options for treating i.b.s. . you know visiting a session of hot air a p we were just talking about this is a bit later that false first again to the i.b.s. and there's strong evidence that there are some psychological reasons but many of my poor. and say no no no or i'm not stressed i'm very ok must be some problems with the ball so what's your

shimon, stick with me. a lot more information coming in. i know you're work your sources to try to get detail coming out. the tragic news, some of it is now becoming more clear, eight people have been killed in a school shooting, a high school in sabt fnta fe, texas. just as school was getting under way. remember, everybody, we're in the middle toward the end of may, which means school is about to be wrapping up. just handed some information that just to put a finer point on it, sant pa fe was scheduledo hold the baccalaureate presentation tomorrow. now we see what they're having to deal with now. tom fuentes, josh campbell, they're back with me. we're learning here and there from some of the students, what they heard and what they saw. 6 one witness, tom, told cnn affiliate ktrk that a gunman walked into an art class and began firing. what looked like a shotgun. the difference what do you think when you hear shotgun, shotgun is a whole lot different than an ar-15. >> it is very different. mainly in the amount of firepower. you have a shotg

sara lee me from france he studies the health impacts of genetically modified foods and rounds up shimon health say that's rats the results divided the academic community being based back to severely criticized . we miss the professor in california with the results of it we decided to take two hundred rats and give them. a diet with. containing roundup and with the round up alone with a regular diet and we saw in both cases big memory tumors on rats and also kidney leakage very hard kidney diseases and liver problems and also the sexual homeowners where this trip to so they were out there was less strong and more as trojans and the reverse way so we thought that this wasn't really a problem for jim rose on the long term consuming gemma's in the long term or having this pesticide in the long term in the temperature because it's a major pesticide of the world. there are some of our trees in us that have started checking products like life to save content when customers ask. why do we do it more like you so. you know they get it will people using more and more and it will come by cumulative

shimon, explain this connection. you've got a russian oligarch, a a. >> right. so the company we're talking about is columbus nova. that's a management, and it is linked to viktor vekselberg, who we spoke about earlier. the company made payments of about $500,000 or so to michael cohen. the connection is that they are linked through this relationship. sec filings called and victor vexelberg has been sanctioned by the u.s. government because of russia interference in the election. he has claes. >> but this company is trying to make a distinction, right? they're saying he didn't have anything to do with this? what are they saying? >> they issued a statement and this will be probably the they're statement we've gotten from them. this one says that essentially they are a management company solely owned and controlled by americans and that reports today that viktor vekselberg used columbus as a -- it's false. neither victor vekselb. >> what do you think of that? >> didn't somehow influence this election is -- we're beyond that. woo don't. as even be kind of a rationa

shimon joins me now. yet another meeting in trump tower tied. why this meeting took place. >> folks say this was -- what is not clear is why victor vekselberg would -- didn't have any say as far as we know in the transition or any policy that the president was going to institute. what is interesting about this meeting is it lasted about 30 minutes. we are told a quick meeting. came in and spoke with michael cohen and went up to his office and then left. also, just days before the meeting, andrew intrater donated money. it was sometime after this meeting that his company hired michael cohen for his work. >> you mentioned michael cohen didn't have a formal role, and was not part of the transition team. are the people who took part in this meeting, these russians, are they cooperating in the investigation? >> we know that both have been questioned. and victor vekselberg was the man who came to new york was met by fbi agents. they took his electronics and there was some questioning of him. he hasn't been cooperating with the fbi. he has been sanctio

. >> shimon sanders, and former trump campaign aide michael caputo. did go after abc parent company, does that make sense to you? >> anderson, no, absolutely, it doesn't make sense, but not much that this white house does does make sense. i find it striking that the president chose to in fact speak out about roseanne and tweet about roseanne and not tweet about the american,s the 4600 americans whose lives were lost due to hurricane maria in puerto rico. the president is more clearly about himself than anything. this could have been a moment where the white house could have got a win on this. they botched it. we are now talking about the president's inability to have compassion and empathy and condemn something that is wrong. sarah sanders chose to elaborate when they have been silent on so much more. >> michael, on twitter, you went as far to offer roseanne on a streaming platform that you launched. why do you think it is wise to be in business with her at this point. and do you think the president lost an opportunity here. >> i think the president w

so shimon, what can you tell us?nvestigators have questioned this russian man he is an oligarch, his name is viktor vekselberg. and you and michael talked about this. they questioned him about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments that were made to president trump's personal attorney michael cohen in 2017. and also questions about other money that perhaps went into people affiliated with the trump campaign and inauguration. those questions were asked of viktor vekselberg when he was stopped by fbi agents. we are told that vekselberg has not been cooperative with authorities and didn't answer many of their questions and all of these issues that you have been discussing at least in part with avenatti have come up as concerns. >> let's talk about what the fbi wanted to know from him. >> viktor vekselberg is one of the most prominent businessman in russia. spent $100 million to buy fabberge eggs to bring them home. he was also asked about questions payments to his cousin. his cousin had donated to the trump inaugu

i have shimon here to explain.he dots between the oligar oligarch, vexelberg. >> he's the owner of a russian conglomerate that is linked to a u.s. financial company called columbus nova, who paid some $500,000 to michael cohen, which they deposited into the same account that he used to pay -- to hush stormy daniels. that money went from columbusnova, money that columbusnova say was for business dealings, went from columbusnova to michael cohen. why the end why all of this matters is because of viktor vekselberg. he attended the december 2015 dinner in moscow that michael flynn attended. he also attended the inauguration, trump's n inauguration. vekselberg is the cousin of columbusnova, which gave money to michael cohen and that same cousin also donated some $285,000 to the trump inauguration and victory funds. all of this has come under scrutiny by the special counsel. the company columbusnova issued a statement essentially and in it they claim that viktor veksel about t vekselberg has not provided any funds, and a

. >> shimon, thanks for that reporting. no comment yet from cohen or vikselberg. we have this statement from columbus nova's general counsel -- i can confirm that the company is 100% owned and controlled by americans. any suggestion that at any point in time viktor vikselberg or any of his companies owned or exercised any control over columbus nova is patently untrue. >>> a big night of primaries in four states. why republicans are breathing a big sigh of relief. and an epic troll from mitch mcconnell's team toward that man, don blankenship. >>> primary results from four states are in. the sound you hear from washington is republicans collectively exhaling. controversial former coal second and ex-con don blankenship finished a distant third in the west virginia senate race, and that prompted a memorable bit of trolling from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's campaign team which tweeted, "thanks for playing, don," on the poster for "national parks on -- "narcos," a referral to the nickname "cocaine mitch." we have more from charleston. >> reporter: there is n

let me bring in shimon prokupecz working his sources, he's got all of this. bring us up to speed, please. >> that's right, kate. this meeting took place in january, around january 9th of 2017, as you said. during the transition. it happened during trump tower, victor vekselberg, you may recall, is a very wealthy, a billionaire, worth some $15 billion, russian oligarch, who has been sanctioned by the united states. he was also recently questioned by fbi agents working for the special counsel after he flew to the u.s. in a new york area, he was pulled off a plane, and questioned by fbi agents. now, at this meeting at trump tower, you see there is video there of mr. vekselberg, there with the hat, his back is to the camera, he's accompanied by his cousin, a man by the name of andrew intrader. as you may recall, we did some reporting regarding andrew intrader. he was eventually hired by michael cohen as a consultant, was paid about $500,000 by michael cohen for what we were told was consulting work. and now this new video which we have reviewed today shows that t

our chief political analyst gloria borger and shimon prokupecz. can the president claim that he knew nothing about this payment? >> no. i think rudy giuliani has some explaining to do and i think tha that's what we'll hear this afternoon. can you imagine a client saying about his attorney, give him some time, he'll get his facts straight? i don't think he should pay rudy giuliani for that. rudy giuliani is new to the case. our reporting is that the other attorneys on this case were appe apoplectic about rudy's media tour the other day, because he doesn't have his facts straight, that michael cohen's attorneys were not happy, either, obviously, because these are different stories. rudy giuliani was supposed to be out there to be a message about how terrible the special counsel is, how the fbi is corrupt, and if he decides in the end not to testify, he can then say, why would i testify before these people who are unfair? so that's the case rudy giuliani is supposed to be making publicly instead of messing up everything that was said before. >> and p

now to shimone. michael cohen is now challenging some of the allegations by michael avenatti there are out there. cohen claiming he is circulate false information. some of which is information you haven't heard on this network because we're only reporting information we have independently verified and confirmed with multiple source. >> that's rig. so this relates to a court filing just made within the last half hour. really it's the first time we're hearing from michael cohen or his attorneys. it takes issue with some of the things that michael mavenatti distributed yesterday in a tweet he posted onlip. there were some things this filing says were inaccurate. that we did not report on. however, he does go into some information that appears at least in part to be accurate from what we've reported on and let me read what it says. it says mr. avenatti has publ h published some information that appears to be from mr. cohen's bank records and he has no reason to believe that mr. avenatti is in position of