jim sciutto joins us now with more on that. jim, again, we talked about this almost every night, this question of hacking, to our intelligence community is not, in fact, an open question. they believe they have definitive proof. >> reporter: not at all. they've had -- they released publicly, they don't always do this with sensitive intelligence issues, but on october 7 in 2016 and in january of 2017, they released assessments with confidence that russia was behind this, and they detailed in some degree in that classified report in january as to why they believe that to be true. we have a special on at 11:00 that teals with the open source evidence why intelligence agencies traced this back to russia. some of it obvious. the hackers who were operating were operating on moscow time. they were operating in the russian alphabet, as well as other indicators. donald trump has been briefed repeatedly on the evidence, and the intelligence agencies, who contributed intelligence to this assessment, the cia, the nsa, the fbi, they concurre

jim sciutto joins us now. so, jim, keeping them honest. the hacking question, is it an open question with the u.s. intelligence community at all? >> in a word, no. it's difficult to imagine a more definitive dismissal of the president's comments today than what we heard from the former director of national intelligence james clapper. the senior-most american spy with more than 40 years' experience, serving presidents of both parties i might add. he said, one, zero question or doubt within the intelligence community that it was russia behind the hacks. two, no evidence whatsoever that he has seen, and of course he sees all the intelligence on this, that there were any others involved in this. and finally, you heard clapper debunking this sort of 17 intelligence agencies thing that's gotten out there. he made the point that these assessments were the assessments of the u.s. intelligence community as a whole. and while not all 17 intelligence agencies signed on to it, they wouldn't, because he said they consulted the agencies that had relevan

jim sciutto, i can sense you almost leaping through the screen. >> just this point, a reminder.ry is an all volunteer military. right? there's no draft. everyone who serves serves as a matter of choice. everyone who is serving today is serving in the midst of america's two longest wars in its history in iraq and afghanistan, two deadly wars that have resulted in thousands of lost american lives and many tens of thousands horribly injured, american service members. this is a bant that will affect and expel and block volunteers, people who are volunteering to serve at a time of great cost to all american service members. that's a fact. >> thank you all very much for sticking with us. certainly a lot to get through this morning. >>> they are back and now set for battle. the senate is in session right now. you are watching the debate on health care. we will bring you an update about what has failed so far, who might pass or fail or who knows going forward. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote mo

let's go to jim sciutto first. jim, walk us through some of these developments weaver learn -- we've learned in the last 24 hours. as we said earlier, you don't have an original story. >> saying that was the only acquaintance is falling like a house of cards. he loved the idea of the meeting because they promised incriminating information on hillary clinton. so even the third or fourth iteration of the story is falling apart, and part of that comment there, that's everything, of course that's fallen apart because we learned there was another person present at that meeting. again, these were not inconsequential people who keep getting added to the list. this russian lawyer promising damaging information but also a powerful connected kremlin lobbyist pushing for key change in the nitwinsky act. early on this red herring was just about adoption. well, it was about adoption but adoption tied to a major u.s. sanctions program which, again, was part of the russian government to get change. it raises the question of was th

jim sciutto is back, along with phil mudd and steve hall.s cnn reporting russia sending in more spies, feeling emboldened about the size and scope of spying it can do. does that surprise you? >> no, it doesn't really surprise me. this is a time of significant tension and uncertainty on both sides, russia and the united states. and it's not at all uncommon for intelligence services to try to ram 7 up, so they can get more information on the plans and intentions of the senior-most policy makers in washington. in that sense it's not a surprise. it's also not a surprise given the fact that 35 russian diplomats, one can safely assume, many of them intelligence officers, were expelled from the united states late last year. so that's another thing that the russians have to do some catching up on. no, it's pretty much expected. >> phil mudd, this happened on the same day that president trump said that nobody knows for sure whether the russians meddled in the u.s. election, despite the fact that u.s. intelligence officials say they do know for sure.

our chief correspondent jim sciutto is digging on that. jim, what are we learning? >> reporter: this is the second russian figure we've had to sort of familiarize ourselves with this week. first it was the russian lawyer who was the impetus really for this meeting. powerful lobbyist, et cetera. now you have another powerful lobbyist with questions about his past including ties to the kremlin, but also a past in the military and question the possibility of ties to russian intelligence as well. >>> the june 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump, jr., jared kushner, and paul manafort included more people beyond the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, a source familiar with the circumstances tells cnn. russian american lobbyist ra nat told several media outlets that he was also in the meeting. he told reporters for "the new york times" and washington post he's a veteran of the soviet army. in a march letter to the justice department, senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley described him as, quote, someone with ties to russian intelligence, someone alleged to

i want to bring in jim sciutto and jeff zeleny. jim, talking as we were getting ready to go on, both just aghast this is actually in an e-mail, never mind actually happened. >> this is momentous. right? we've been covering the story, this question of collusion, for months now. still a question. based on meetings, perhaps an unusual number of meetings with unusual parties. russian parties. to this point, that's what this question in the investigation has been based on. meetings. but we didn't know the reason for the meetings what it was, or what happened in those meetings. now we have a meeting and electronic proof of exactly what the intention and offer was, and it could not be more explicit. documents that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia. very high letter and senly and part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. so not just the, that he was willing to take a meeting to get information about hillary clinton. perhaps all candidates wro ould that, but from a foreign country raises questions, and tha

. >>> i'm jim sciutto. have a good fourth of july. we're going to the situation room. >>> a missile powerful enough to reach alaska. in time for the holiday to send a message to president trump and testing him with a major policy crisis. >>> commander in tweet. president trump responds to north korea on twitter saying of kim jong-un, does this guy have anything better to do with his life? meantime, the leaders of russia and china hash out a plan of their own to deal with the russia threat without any input to the u.s. >>> face to face, president trump and russia's president vladimir putin will sit down at a formal meeting at the g20 summit on friday. this is their first face-to-face meeting. is the president ready to negotiate? >>> states push back. 44 states have refused the trump administration's success for private voter information. why did the administration request it in the first place? you're in the situation room. >>> north korea has crashed america's july fourth party with fireworks of its own, successfully launching a missi

thank you very much, jim sciutto. i want to go to a member of the armed services committees and thank you for being with me. the president says he made this decision after consultation with his generals and military experts. i don't know if you just heard jim sciutto reporting, the heads for the military branches were caught off guard. they felt the military could handle trance gender individuals. you're on the armed services committee. did you or anyone else on the committee know that this was coming? >> we had no idea that this announcement was coming, and by the way, as far as i know, neither our chairman, john mccain nor our ranking member, both very strongly and expolicely denounced these tweets. you read a little earlier john mccain's statement. and the action was bipartisan opposition on both sides of the aisle. we oppose this twitter policy. it isn't a well considered or consulted policy because it violates the principal that servicemen and women should be based on their ability to fight, deploy, train. many t

i'm jim sciutto. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, the united nations security council holds a security session today after north korea's long-range missile, long enough to reach alaska. north korea says it can carry a nuclear warhead. the u.s. and south korea have carried out their own missile drill in response. u.n. ambassador nikki haley warns that the u.s. is prepared to defend itself and its lindsay lohan lies. they called out china for doing business, quote, in an out law regime. president trump has pressured china to slant china's trade with the north. >>> trump arriving a round of meetings with european leaders, but it could turn chilly at the g20 summit in germany. the allies have been chilly since the g20 summit in may. administration sources do not expect president trump to focus or even mention russian election meddling and even members of his own team worried that he may be unprepared to deal with putin face to face. i'll talk to t

erin burnett outfront with jim sciutto starts right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm jim sciutto. you were just listening to reince priebus. he's the subject of our breaking news tonight. the white house chief of staff replaced. john kelly is taking over. i want to get right to our panel. mark preston, margaret taliff, chris cillizza and general james spidermarks. he knows general kelly very well. mark preston, i want to begin with you. we heard reince priebus there playing you might say the good boy scout saying that kelly is chief of staff and in his words a brilliant choice. that the president was great, reince priebus said. do you think that reflects the reality of these last few days, these last few hours for the now former chief of staff. >> i would go back to these last few weeks. no, i think inside reince priebus is probably boiling with anger thinking he put it all on the line for the president and in fact was not rewarded with the loyalty back. but the fact of the matter was there did need to be a reboot in this white house. perhaps right from the top. meaning president

jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> u.s. president donald trump is back in the u.s.fter being guest of honor for bastille day here in paris. he and the first lady were invitin invited by president emmanuel macron. the two seemed to enjoy the two greatly. the highlight was the military parade along the champs de. then helping secure defeat of germany. u.s. fighter jets participated in what is the crowd favorite here. the flyover. joining me now in paris to suggest the significance of the trip is amy green. the author of the book published in french. "america after obama." what did we learn from the latest foreign trip by the u.s. president? >> what we learned is a lot of opportunity now for french-american relations to assume the full place. the two leaders of state and heads of state have a great personal relationship. they seem to have accentuated the convergence with the united states and france. wediscord. we did not see any advantage on climate change or the paris accord. we saw french-american relations in a good state. a lot of opportunities to work together. t

let's go to jim sciutto. jim, what did russia tell the american embassy? said this measure is further truth of the united states's extremely hostile policy, hiding behind its sense of superiority. the united states arrogantly ignores the stances and interests of other countries. they're booting a number of u.s. diplomats from russia, bringing the total number down to 455, which is the same number of russian diplomats in the u.s. these things tend to be reciprocal. and they're also blocking access to two diplomatic sites in russia that diplomats use, seizing those two compounds. one of them is a place along the moscow river where diplomats like to barbecue and walk their dogs. but it's important to those folks and the russians have now taken them away. >> how is the trump administration responding to what russia announced? >> the fact is they can't do a lot. they've given a strongly worded statement, as you might expect. this from the u.s. ambassador to russia. we have received the russian government notification. ambassador tefft expressed his strong disap

jim sciutto has more on him. >> the june meeting with jared kushner and paul mania for the, includingople. russian american lobbyist told several media outlets he be skbrrk and as someone with dies to election induction. plinly this wrrjs there, too. both deliver a message as well to receive a message and plainly who is could you good this trump campaign would really appreciate it. >> he said, quote, at no time have i ever worked for any of ng frrjs a u set citizens, and the lobbyer in yesh was abled at repealing tagging to. from sfrfrmt and new york papers filed in new york in 2015 of hacking on behalf of one company into the computer systems of a rival company to steal back enough information the withdrut dismass route. in an earlier related case, he denied a similar in an the day. >> how was this guy known in d.c. political circles? >> he was well known, both tied to people and if thereof. prr prrks, flrks and human rights abuses, that's something that he and the lawyer who were at the center of this meeting shared. they were lon ying to change this u.s. policy sense kwons make ver

here's jim sciutto. good morning, jim. >> reporter: the june 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort included more people beyond the russian lawyer natalia veselnistkaya, a source familiar with the circumstances tells cnn. russian-american lobbyist rinat akhmetshin told several media outlets that he was also in the meeting. he told reporters for "new york times" and "the washington post" that he's a veteran of the soviet army. in a march letter to the justice department, senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley described him as, quote, someone with ties to russian intelligence, someone alleged to have conducted political disinformation campaigns as part of a pro-russia lobbying effort. >> plainly this russian attorney, this other third party if they were present, they were there to both deliver a message as well to receive a message and plainly moscow understood only too well that this is conduct that the trump campaign would really appreciate. >> reporter: rinat

joining us now with more on this difficult problem, correspondent jim sciutto. us what u.s. officials are saying happened during this missile launch. >> reporter: when they look at it, they're saying one, it's new. that's interesting, because the u.s. and the international community has been aware of most of north korea's missile classes and they've been seeing advances in each class, but this one is a new catcategory. two, it does appear to be an attempt at an entintercontinent ballistic missile. one remaining question is did the reentry vehicle come down to earth in a situation that was controlled, meaning they had control from start to finish. that's not clear yet. but they're certainly getting closer here. that's a lot of the ingredients, a lot of steps to get to that eventu eventuality, that north korea has the ability to hit across continents, including the u.s. >> theoretically how far could this missile reach? >> reporter: to alaska. the question welcomes, can they take the next step of reliably miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to put on the tip. that's a

our jim sciutto has more on that from washington. >> reporter: the june, 2016, meeting between jared kushner, donald trump jr., and the russian lawyer, a source tells cnn russian american lobbyists said he was also in the meeting. telling reporters for the "washington times" and more, he was described as "someone with ties to russian intelligence. someone alleged to have conducted political disinformation campaigns as part of a pro-russia lobbying effort." >> plainly, this russian attorney, this other third party if they were present, they were there to deliver a message as well as to receive a message. plainly moscow understood only too well that this is conduct that the trump campaign would appreciate. >> reporter: ahmeden said "at no time have i ever worked for the russian government or any of its agencies. i was not an intelligence officer. never." he also told the "post" he was born in russia and became a u.s. citizen in 2009. his lawyering effort which he did on behalf of the russian lawyer was aimed at repealing an act that sanctions russians accused of human rights abuse. a c

. >>> i'm jim sciutto and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, russia's election meddling is at the heart of president trump's high stakes meeting with russia's vladimir putin which ran four times longer than planned. secretary of state rex tillerson said president trump opened by raising concerns about russia's interference in the 2016 campaign. tillerson says the two leaders had a robust and lengthy exchange on the subject, with putin denying any involvement and the russians asking for proof. senior u.s. official rejects a russian claim that president trump accepted putin's denial. tillerson said the leaders had a positive chemistry, reaching an agreement on a cease fire in syria, which he says could lead to more cooperation. and at russia's request, the u.s. has appointed a special representative for ukraine. >>> there have been clashes all day among german protesters looking to cease the summit. the first lady was stuck in her hotel for a time as fires raged in hamburg and clouds of smoke filled the city. police say dozens of

bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, these e-mails, very, very explicit. this is a bombshell. >> no question. listen, you have the senate and house intelligence committees, fbi, special counsel, for weeks and months been investigating the question of collusion, cooperation, whatever you want to call it. to this point, that's been based on the existence of meetings, right? perhaps unusual in number. perhaps unusual that they are with russian officials or others tied to the russian government. and unusual as well that many were undisclosed. but the reason of those meetings until this point wasn't know. the meetings happened. the question, why did it happen? with one meeting you have the intention. damaging information on hillary clinton supplied by the russian government. not just russians. by the russian government pnd a and designed to help donald trump. written down in e-mail form to the president's son and that brings us at least with evidence. it's not conclusive. i'm not a lawyer. we're not prosecutors, jump an

jim sciutto in for wolf, up after a quick break. >>> hello.ciutto in for wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 7:00 p.m. in paris, 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >>> and we begin with breaking news surrounding a secret meeting last summer between trump campaign officials and a russian lawyer. telling cnn other people were there, in fact, besides those who previously had been disclosed. the associated press revealing today a russian lobbyist was

i turn you over to jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> happening now, breaking news. violent clashes, riot police battle anti-globalization protesters as thousands take to the streets boozing the g20 summit in germany where president trump is holding high stakes meetings with world leaders. once again openly questions the u.s. intelligence community which concluded with confidence that putin directed the attack on u.s. democracy. the meeting will be small in size. the two leaders joined only by secretary of state tillerson and russia's foreign minister and interpreters. why is there only a few pages of paper? >>> and no red line. the president answers north korea's nut missile launch with big threats, saying he's weighing a severe response distressing that he doesn't draw red lines. why not? >>> wolf blitzer off today, i'm jim sciutto, and you're in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news, riot police use water cannons and pepper spray against protesters hurling rocks and smoke bombs as thousands take to the streets in hamburg, ge

jim sciutto in, after a quick break. >>> hello. i'm jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m.ington, 7:00 in hamburg, germany. 8:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watch aring from around the world, thank you for joining us. >>> the highly anticipated meeting between president trump and russian president vladimir putin just ended after more than two hours. keep in mind, the meeting was supposed to go around 40 minutes. we expect officials to brief the media sometime this hour and will bring you that information soon as we get it. both presidents trump and putin spoke to reporters before their private meeting, and here's what president trump had to say.

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i'm jim sciutto. you are in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight. fresh protests at the g-20 summit in germany. new clashes have erupted between police in riot gear and demonstrators with police turning water canons on the crowd to disperse them. current and former u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn that russian spies have ramped up intelligence gathering efforts inside the united states in the wake of the presidential election. one official says that moscow has been emboldened by its successful interference in last year's campaign. president trump is again questioning whether russia was actually behind the political hacking. sources tell cnn that secretary of state rex tillerson and russian foreign minister will be only other officials inissed the room. and the president is suggesting that a military response is possible saying he is thinking about quote pretty severe things. james mattis warning it would be quote tragic on an unbelievable scale. we're coverin

jim sciutto has the details for us. this laser, jim, has a very important defense capability?oes. multiple targets, really. and it's currently deployed on a u.s. warship operating in the persian gulf for threats on the surface, in the air, aircraft, boats. but also, in the future possibly for missiles. even for targets in space. this is not science fiction, it's not experimental. it's at the disposal of a u.s. captain deployed today. in the sometimes hostile waters of the persian gulf looms the u.s. navy's first -- in fact, the world's first active laser weapon. the l.a.s. is not sicience fiction but it's really to be fired at targets today by captain christopher wells and his crew. cnn was granted exclusive access to a test of the laser. >> it's more precise than a bullet. it's not like other weapons that we have where it's only good against air contacts or surface contacts or against ground-based targets. it's a very versatile weapon. >> reporter: l.a.w.s. begins with a weapon that moves by definition at the speed of light. for comparison, that is 50,000 times the speed of a

cnn's national security correspondent jim sciutto has the story. >> the june 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump junior, jared kushner and paul manafort included more people beyond the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. a source familiar with the circumstances tells cnn. russian american lobbyist rinat akhmetshin told several media outlets that he was also in the meeting. akhmetshin told reporters for "the new york times" and the "washington post" that he's a veteran of the soviet army. in a march letter to the justice department, senate judiciary chairman kruk grassley said someone alleged to have conducted political disinformation campaign as as part of a pro russian lobbying effort. >> plainly this russia third party that was present, they were there to deliver a message as well as to receive a message. and plainly moscow understood only too well that this is conduct that the trump campaign would really appreciate. >> akhmetshin denied any links to the "washington post." saying quote at no time have i ever worked for the russian government or any of its agencies. i was n

for that let's bring in jim sciutto and legal analyst jeff toobin. jeff, let me start with you. assuming what we know as fact which on its face, senior members of the trump team willing to meet with somebody who was billed as having damaging information on hillary clinton, who was billed as a russian government attorney, somebody with information from the russian prosecutor. is that a crime? >> possibly. and i really want to be careful about that, because i think there has been a lot of loose talk about what's criminal and what's not. i certainly don't think treason is even a remote possibility here. treason involves times of war. this is not, under any circumstances, treason. however, there are campaign finance laws which do potentially carry criminal penalties which say it is illegal to solicit or receive government in a campaign.foreign that usually applies to money. >> yeah. >> but if the thing of value is intelligence, hacked e-mails, that potentially could be a crime. it's not something that i'm aware has ever been prosecuted as anything other than money, but it is somethi

i'm jim sciutto in for jake tapper. we begin with july fourth holiday with breaking news in "the lead." president saying our country will grow and prosper. this as the president faces a new and serious threat from north korea. u.s. officials have now determined that north korea's missile test last night was most likely an intercontinental ballistic missile which could indicate a significant development in the road regime's weapons program. the launch prompted an unexpected meeting between president trump's national security team, the president responding to the test as you might expect on twitter. writing, quote, north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all, exclamation point. the north korean threat is certain to be a major focus of donald trump's second overseas trip as president with vladimir pu

jim sciutto, let me start with you. where might the special counsel investigation and the senate and house intelligence committees, their investigations go? >> i think on this donald trump jr. meeting, if he thinks a friendly interview on "hannity" is going to put a fork in this, he's mistaken. the special counsel will have far more questions to ask about this as will the house and senate intelligence committees. his explanation that, well, there was nothing useful there. is he saying had there been useful, incriminating evidence then it would have been a worthwhile meeting? and that's just one meeting. there are many other meetings where hill investigators and the special counsel will have reasonable questions to see why did you meet? what was discussed? and not just that. they'll have reasonable questions. there's also a lot of evidence they have access to. meetings that took place in europe with russians may have been surveilled by u.s. intelligence or by our intelligence partners there. there are transcripts, whole

i'm jim sciutto. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> the breaking news, intelligence sources telling cnn russia is ramping up espionage activity in the united states. more than 150 russian spies now believed to be in america. the news coming hours before president trump's first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. >> plus russia wants the u.s. to give back two mansions suspected of housing spies. will trump agree. >>> and a north korean nuclear missile could hit the west coast in 20 minutes. but is the u.s. ready? let's go out front. >>> out front tonight the breaking news. cnn learning that russian spies are stepping up their intelligence gathering in the u.s. this is spying that has increased since the election. this is according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials. it comes just hours away from that highly anticipated high stakes first face to face first president trump and president putin. trump speaking in poland today used some of his strongest language get to urge ru

let's bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto with exclusive information for us you very much. i have the agreement obtained exclusively by cnn. the existence have been known but the contents kept secret due to the sensitivity of what's involved and agreed to in private by heads of state. the agreements you're seeing, first of which handwritten signed by the king of saudi arabia, amir of qatar and kuwait, obtained by cnn from a source in the region with access to the documents. a second agreement dated in 2014 headlined "top secret" adds the king of bahrain, crown prince of awe bea abu dhabi and explained worst diplomatic crisis in the mete, really in decades, abiding by the agreements was among six principals, the golf nations set as requirements to improve relations with qatar in a statement released last week. in the statement to cnn, qatar accused saudi arabia and uae of breaking the spirit of the agreement and indulging in "an unprovoked attack on qatar's sovereignty." >> the secretary of state of the u.s., rex tillerson in kuwait in the region would like to

jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> donald trump jr.says the meeting was a waste of time and nothing was disclosed because there was nothing to disclose, he says. but some critics are calling it collusion. so which is it? i asked the former republican chairman of the house intelligence committee and now cnn national security commentator mike rogers. >> it's certainly not a crime. the lack of transparency to me is the biggest part of this issue. i think you had -- they all made an interesting decision, apparently three of them did know that this information was at least purported to come from the russian government. you know, the first reaction to that is if any foreign government tries to come here and provide information on your opponent of any stripe, i don't care what party you are, what your philosophical bend is, the first call should be to the fbi and that didn't happen. so it's a little bit concerning to me that their judgment allowed hem to go and sit in the meeting. and then the notion that they just were not consistent in disc

let's talk about it with jim sciutto and david gergen.id gergen, any and every meeting between the leaders of the united states and russia always fraught with tension, always huge expectations, but here i think they're even higher. you can't overstate how closely people will watch this meeting, what is said and not said. as you sit here tonight, what do you think will happen at this meeting? >> well, i'm not -- i'm not really sure what's going to happen at this meeting. it depends if they go off script or not. if they stick to the script, then i think you're going to have the president only press lightly on the question of meddling with many people in the united states think he ought to push very hard. i think he may make a couple of concessions, minor concessions to the russians, which again will not be greeted well here. the big question is, is he going to get serious cooperation on syria, isis and fighting isis. it's not at all clear putin wants to give in on that. putin has made big gains in the middle east. there's also the question

i'm jim sciutto, and you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news. an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council in response to north korea's latest missile test, u.s. ambassador nikki haley demanding tougher sanctions against north korea, and she had pointed words for the russian ambassador saying a vote against sanctions means, quote, you are holding the hands of kim jong-un. tonight we are learning new details of the missile, u.s. officials tell cnn the two-stage rocket will be classified by u.s. intelligence as a brand-new weapon na has not been seen before. president trump will have the chance to discuss north korea directly with the russian president vladimir putin when they meet at the g20 summit in germany on friday. the president just arrived at his first stop, wausau, where he will give a speech tomorrow. white house officials say he will outline his vision of transatlantic ties. covering all that with our guests including former senior advisor to hillary clinton and joe biden jake sullivan, and correspondents a

right to chief security correspondent jim sciutto, senior political report irand nia mallika henderson, abby phillip white house reporter for the washington post. the second meeting we're learning about between put and i tin and president trump at the g-20 what happened? >> you often have pull asides and casual conversations. in addition to formal within on ones. so in andation to the putin trump formal one-on-one, the sit down we knew about, at this dinner, there was another conversation previously undisclosed between trump and putin. it was not five or ten minutes. it was an hour long. what's interesting about this is that the other people present at the g-209 din ker, u.s. allies, leaders of u.s. allies in europe, they're the one who's found it unusual, strange at this dinner for the president, stand up, go sit down next to the russian president and speak that length of time, unusual to them. american allies. and then not disclose it until and this is the latest in a series of meetings between people in trump world and russians, not disclose it till challenged by members of the medi

cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us with the latest.o what more did kushner have to say after the meeting? >> anderson, in effect making the same points he made in his written statement. as you said, he said he did not collude. he was not aware of anyone else on the trump campaign who included. he also said he did not, his businesses did not rely, his choice of words, on russian money. that word drew some attention because it might indicate leaving some window open to having some russian money in his businesses but, in fact, we're told by his advisers they thought about clarifying that statement, he did not mean to leave that door open. he went to say as far as he's aware, he doesn't have significant amounts of russian money in his businesses. >> i understand representative schiff expects kushner to come back for more interviews or multiple interviews? >> absolutely. the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee described this as the first interview with jared kushner. he said that the time limitations made it that way. two h

jim sciutto, you heard from sarah huckabee sanders there. this is certainly probably the biggest development in this russian -- alleged russian coconclusic collusion story that we have seen this far. >> we've been covering the story since the very beginning. the senate and house intelligence committees have been digging on this question for weeks, months now. fbi, now the special counsel. that collusion question, and it's still a question, has been based purely on the fact that meetings took place. a number of meetings, a frequency that caught the notice, we have reported, of the sbenls community and law enforcement, particularly the fact that it was with so many russians, both here in the u.s. and conversations and meetings in europe as well. this is the first time we have the substance of the meeting. the impetus behind that meeting, what, in fact, was offered for the son of the president to take that meeting and very explicitly, in black and white, damaging information to the hillary clinton from the russian government with the intention

jim sciutto joins us with that you've been digging into the details on the june 2016 meeting. what have you learned? >> first, let's look at everybody who was in that room. eight people. well were showing their names and face there's. on the trump side you have the president's son, you have his son-in-law, jared kushner, you have paul manafort who at the time was his campaign manager. on the russian side, the lawyer nattialia veselnitskaya. the lobbyist, the publishist rob goldstone, a translator, and now we know a representative of the agalarov family. why is that important? a number of people there, goldstone who set up the meeting promised you this information, saying that's what the russian side was going to bring. and you have someone connecting back to the agalarov family that we now know had a relationship of many years, including a business relationship with the trump family. so what this does is it yet again contradicts the way trump world has described this meeting. first of all that. >> didn't disclose it. when they did disclose it, they said it was inconsequential.

jim sciutto, thank you so much for that. >>> joining me now is republican congressman mark sanford of south carolina. i have so much to talk to you about, including these foreign policy issues. i want to begin, though, with the president's recent attacks on the media. we still don't know exactly how this video made its way to the president's twitter account. we know, though, as you may have heard in our report, that it was a response to president trump not responding to hacking of the website. do you think it's this material or where it came from. why would you retweet something that i think by its very nature is inflammatory. . . i've said significantly that the president needs to back off from the tweets. they are at a minimum distracting to his legislative agenda. we're sitting here talking about it right now rather than health care or taxes or a whole host of other issues that medium. there is a question of how it would get to what you would expect would be filters to the content to the president? >> i don't think his twitter account is particularly filtered, last time i checked.

chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. good evening to both of you. welcome to the panel. jim, you first, earlier today at a press conference in poland, the president answered a question about the russians meddling in our elections by saying, "nobody really knows, nobody really knows for sure." but you asked the former director of national intelligence james clapper about that. let's listen then we'll discuss. >> in your position as director of national intelligence oversaw the entire u.s. intelligence community. in your view, is there any doubt about russia's role? >> absolutely none. and that has been reaffirmed by those who are still in positions of responsibility in the intelligence community. there's absolutely no doubt about it, the high confidence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and its high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the veracity of that report. >> so jim clapper also told you that he believes the russians want to prep the battlefield for 2018 and that it's an attack on, quote, us, not republicans or democrats.

i turn you over to my colleague jim sciutto in for wolf in the situation room. >>> happening now, breakingmergency meeting. the united nations security council holds an emergency session a day after north korea launches what u.s. intelligence views as a brand new long-range missile. u.s. warns it is prepared to defend itself and its allies and warns china about trading with kim jong-un. >>> diplomatic dance. president trump gets ready to sit down with russia's president

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. >> and i'm jim sciutto. here's what we know at this hour. right now we're getting new details on how the white house struggled to manage the disclosure of emails setting up that bomb shell meeting. this as top senate investigators now want donald trump jr. to testify under oath possibly as soon as next week. they want to know more about his meeting with the russian lawyer last year that he went into expecting dirt on hillary clinton. he was told coming from the kremlin. tonight president trump is fuelling new questions about what he knew and when he knew it. speaking to reporters while flying to paris, he seemed to contradict his own public statements that he learned about the meeting with the russian lawyer only within the last few days, the president saying, quote, in fact, maybe it was mentioned at some point. we're digging on that this hour. another key question. did donald trump jr. speak on the phone with a pivotal figure behind the meeting? a wealthy and well connected russian popstar. we're going to talk to his attorney live this hou

. >> and i'm jim sciutto. here's what we know at this hour.ow we're getting new details on how the white house struggled to manage the disclosure of emails setting up that bomb shell meeting. this as top senate investigators now want donald trump jr. to testify under oath possibly as soon as next week.

i turn you over to jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> happening now, breakinges, riot police battle anti-globalization protesters as thousands take to the streets boozing the g20 summit in germany where president trump is holding high stakes meetings with world leaders. once again openly questions the u.s. intelligence community which concluded with confidence that putin directed the attack on u.s. democracy.