kylie atwood is joining us right now. she's in cairo, egypt that's where the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken is right now for meetings with egyptian officials. kylie, you're there. what's been the u.s. reaction so far we know we know the u.s. government, the state department considers his ball up international terrorist organization formerly denounced them as an international terrorist organization, but what is the reaction from the u.s. to what's going on in lebanon we've actually just learned a new details sources tell myself and our colleague oren liebermann for men, that israeli officials notified the united states on tuesday ahead of this attack. >> they didn't tell them, however what they were going want to do, just that there would be an operation that would be carried out in lebanon. so us officials were left trying to figure out what was going to happen. and when it was going to happened, this was communicated, including in a phone call between the secretary of defense, lloyd austin and his counterpart yoav gallant on tuesday good morning. but we'

cnn, national security correspondent kylie atwood is monitoring developments kylie, how are these meetings, these speeches going to affect? what is clearly a escalating situation between hezbollah and israel. >> well, us officials continue to call for de-escalation. but one thing that they're concerned about this week is that the un general assembly isn't necessarily going to do that, isn't necessarily going to deescalate what we're seeing with these increased tensions between israel and hezbollah and lebanon. and there's a number of reasons for that so they are expecting the speech by president mahuchikh mahmoud abbas from the palestinian authority, potentially a speech by prime minister netanyahu. there also expecting the countries who have recognized palestine as a state already to reiterate that they are doing that and potentially other countries to add to that chorus all of these things, they don't think are going to de-escalate the situation. and the reason that that is unique, brianna, is that typically heading into the un general assembly, you talk to us officials and they're excit

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. >> cnn's kylie atwood has more sage parchman rolled out a major effort to try and blunt the global influence of rt, the russia state media network, and also to expose it as playing a key role in russian intelligence and influence operations globally with the secretary of state saying that much of the new information came from or t employees notably, we also know is declassified us intelligence at the state department provided publicly on friday, one of the key details is that a russian cyber and intelligence unit was imbedded in rt that started back in 2023 officials wouldn't say if that unit is still embedded within our t, but it was able to collect information and then share it back with russian intelligence. >> now, the state department is engaged in a global diplomatic effort now to try and share this information with allies around the globe to warn them of the risks so seated with rt globally and this comes on the heels of the biden administration, the department of justice going after the influence that rt was seeking to have here in the united states to try and influence the

cnn's kylie atwood is with us now. this was a speech that came just moments before these explosions in beirut. what is the message he's sending? today? >> it is a very clear message that israel is still interested and sees it as a necessity to engage militarily against hezbollah across what's the border in lebanon. he said in his speech today that israel has every right to continue these strikes against hezbollah. that of course, was met with frustration from us officials who have been pressing for a ceasefire and recently synthase. but i want you to just listen to as part of his speech this morning before the news broke about this additional strike that occurred against the hezbollah headquarters in beirut today. and just the tone that he was taking in terms of the necessity to continue going after hezbollah in lebanon, listen to this just this week the idf destroyed large percentages of hezbollah's rockets, which had built with iran is funding for three decades we took out senior military commanders will not only sho

cnn's kylie atwood joins joins me now. kylie, this is a pretty extraordinary, this does not happen.bviously every day we're us authorities go in and seize the plane of a head of state. but that, that is essentially what's happened this morning. can you break this down for us? >> yeah. exactly. so the plane of nicholas maduro, the president of venezuela, is now in the hands of the united states it's as you can see there, those images demonstrate that it has just landed in florida. it was seized by us authorities in the dominican republic. that is, according to multiple us officials who spoke with our colleague, priscilla alvarez about this and how this all came to fruition. jim, is that this plane was in the dominican republic in recent months. we don't oh, know exactly why. but that presented the opportunity for us authorities to work with authorities in the dominican republic to actually make up a plan and sees the plane. and just to give folks contexts, this plane is effectively the air force one of venezuela. this is a plane that cost about 13 million in dollars. the us estimates

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kylie atwood is in washington. kylie, what can we expect? from the meeting this morning between biden and harris and the negotiating team yeah. >> well, listen, this is a meeting that will take place in the situation room at the white house here in washington today. and according to the white house, what they're going to discuss our efforts to drive towards a deal to secure the release of these toss. it is now a sara. this is something that we have heard time and time again over months. but what us officials say now is that there added urgency to these efforts and that's because of the execution of those six hostages by hamas over the weekend. now, just to remind our viewers, there are total of 101 hostages believed to be held by hamas. 68 of those alive, seven of those are americans and four of those americans are believed to be alive. and one of the complicating factors that they're going to have to discuss this week is the fact that according to a senior us official, the us had been discussing a final package with qatar egypt that they wo

kylie atwood. thank you so much. and for more now on all of these developments in the middle east, let's go to cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. he is also the author of new cold wars mine is rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. david is netanyahu's insistence in his press conference in these negotiations on maintaining control of the philadelphi corridor is this a strategy of politics? or a strategy of national security? what are the vectors here both probably a bit of both to it brianna. >> first of all, as a matter of national security, he clearly has a disagreement with his own defense minister, who has said, we don't need you know they've got a? >> lot of strategic priorities here, but the most important one in the view of the defense minister, defense ministry, a lot is get the hostages back the most important one for the prime minister is make sure that you cut off that carter from being a supply of new weaponry to hamas. >> but there's politics involved a

cnn's kylie atwood is at the state department apartment for us. kylie does the report reveal anything new well, it doesn't reveal any major revelations about how the ghana's and withdrawal three years ago by the biden ministration was carried out. >> but there are some new details, brianna, for example, one of the things that this report does is focusing on the public comments that were made about the withdrawal at the time from the podiums here at the state department? and the white house podium and they juxtapose that to things that they have learned about the u.s assessment at the time from the military perspective in their interviews with senior pentagon on officials making the claim that the biden administration was lying and misleading the public as this withdrawal was happening, essentially making the case that they were more worried as the the report says about optics and about personnel security. we also learned some new details of the negotiations that were happening to try and reach a power, right? to power-sharing agreement between the

kylie atwood. thank you. important reporting for us this morning. >> house republicans released their report this week on the u.s. drawl withdrawal from afghanistan, the scathing report placed blame not only on joe biden, but also tried to blame vice president kamala harris for the chaotic withdrawal. and now a group of military leaders is coming to harris's defense. the retired military officials riding in an open letter in part, this vice president kamala harris is the best and only presidential candidate in this race who is fit to serve as our commander in chief. she has demonstrated her ability to take on the most difficult national security challenges in this situation room and on the international stage, joining us right now is one of the military leaders who signed that letter, retired u.s. army major general randy manner, general. thank you very much for coming in. why did you decide to speak out publicly in signing onto this letter supporting kamala harris now bluntly stated, there were so much misin

let's get right to seen national security correspondent, kylie atwood. so what are these discussion on? what's the urgency kylie well, listen john, the current agreement doesn't actually expire until the end of 2025. >> that is more than a year from now. and this is a cost-sharing agreement for about 28,000 us troops that are stationed in south korea. obviously, folks who are supportive some of those troops being there say that they are critical to us national security. they deter any aggression from north korea, china in the region, particularly of course, as both are growing more and more aggressive. but what the concern is now is when they'll actually get this agreement done and i'm told by sources that there are talks ongoing right now. but actually conclude this agreement by the end of the year, that would be almost a year in advance of when they have to and the major reason for that is former president trump, south korean officials particularly feel a sense of urgency to get this done before the end of the year, before the possibility that trump win

cnn, national security correspondent kylie atwood is joining us from the state department right now. what are you learning, kylie? >> well, listen what we've learned wolf is today, the biden administration, as you said, is going to reveal our tie that russian state media network as playing a critical role. a key role in russia's intelligence gathering, and operations globally around the world. this is according to a senior administration official and multiple sources familiar with the matter, what the state department is going to do is they are going to declassify us intelligence based on activities globally that make this case that are t is fully integrated into russia's intelligence operations around the world. they're also going to do something else. they're going to launch a global diplomatic campaign so that us diplomats, or informing their counterparts in other countries of the risks associated with artie, we're expected to learn some very new details about what intelligence has been doing with rt, for example embedding a russian cyber unit into our tie at one time. that's accor

kylie atwood, cnn, the state department kylie, thank you. >> and we're joined now by jill dougherty, a former cnn moscow bureau chief and professor at georgetown university. jill, thanks so much for being here with us. i know you've written extensively about russian disinformation. you're actually teaching a course on it right now. what's just your they shall response to this news that we're learning i'm not surprised i know margarita zoom in yan, who is the head of rt, editor in chief, and you know, rt was founded, you have to go back to almost 20 years, 19 years ago, 2005 remember talking with her? >> she was very young when she took over actually starting it at the age of 25. and i remember talking to her and she said, you know, jill, we really want our rt to be kind of like cnn, an international news organization. but in the same breath, she said early on in that period, there wasn't a lot of interest in russia at all. so what they did was they rebranded and instead of russia today you had rt and then they hired a whole bunch of young americans, brits, et cetera. so you really di

at all as being a critical decision maker when it came to this withdrawal, sara all right. >> kylie atwood there. thank you so much for your reporting on those were dueling reports, john all right. >> brand new from the harris-walz campaign with just a day before the first big debate, what they rolled out. just now designed to take away a key talking point from donald trump. and one person's junk is another person's 17th century masterpiece, new reporting on a painting, founding in an attic. they could be a long lost work by rembrandt kamala harris, donald trump, the debate. everyone's been waiting for follow cnn for complete coverage and exclusive pre and post-debate analysis. a cnn special event, the abc news it's presidential debate. tomorrow at nine eastern on cnn and streaming on max no matter what kind of teeth you've got a brush or will be electric cleans better with one simple touch, oral b's dennis inspired round brush. >> it calms him cleanses and gets in-between them for 100% cleaner tie, you're perfect clean starts with oral iii can you believe this dark, moody, a frank thomas

so next we have a piece by the cnn published by katie boelilis, natasha burtran and kylie atwood on september 29, 2022, called first on cnn, european security officials observed russian navy ships in visinity of northstream pipeline, they saw the ships. very suspicious, so in this piece uh, the cnn claimed that european security officials observed russian navy support ships in the vicinity of leaks in the northstream pipelines likely caused by underwater explosions, and that russian submarines were also observed not far from those areas, a week before the incident. hm, yeah, i mean, strange that they would be there, i guess, yeah, so fast forward to august 14th of this year, just recently, cnn published a piece by rob pa'. called ukrainian man wanted over northstream pipelines explosions. hm, so cnn, again similar to nyt, kind of expod exposed itself and it's its own, lies and assertions uh that were told two years earlier, by reporting that, according to the new german media reports investigators in germany believe that the sailing boat set sail from rossdoc germany in september 2022, stoppi

today cnn national security correspondent, kylie atwood is here with details. so kylie, what do officials say prompted this new escalation? >> will as you said, they made the determination that the acquisition of this plane was in violation of u.s. sanctions. and so then they tried to figure out how they could get their hands on the plane, how this all came to fruition, was that the plane was in the dominican republic, according to officials those from the dominican republic, it was there getting some maintenance that it needed to get the u.s. worked with officials in that country to come up with this plan to seize the plane that happen and then today it was flown to florida and the u.s has been going after corruption within the venezuelan government for years now, they've been trying to prevent and goods and money from getting into the country. and specifically, of course, ending up in the hands of the president nicolas maduro. they've seized things like luxury car first, but this is a major escalation. i mean, imagine another country seizing air force, one tha

lebanon and the united states did not have advanced warning cnn's national security correspondent, kylie atwood is with me. kylie, very interesting words there i don't want to read too much into it, but it seemed to be an expression of displeasure yeah, that's right. >> you also heard from the secretary of state in the last hour who really hit at the gravity of this moment, just what this moment could mean in terms of the continued concerns about this turning into a wider conflict that the u.s. has been pushing against for months now, increasingly, over the last week, even though israeli officials for us straight at them by not getting on board with their efforts to drive towards a ceasefire notably, the secretary of state did not endorse, but he also didn't say that he opposed this strike that. you guys have been discussing reporting on the israeli strike against the lebanese excuse me, the hezbollah headquarters in lebanon. but what he did say was that israel has a right to defend itself. but how it does so matters very clear in us concerns about this situation potentially escalating and turn

but those efforts remain underway kylie atwood. >> thank you very much for that a brand new hour, a news fiesta of cnn, new central starts right now we begin. with breaking news this morning, new polling numbers across six crucial swing states as the candidates prepare for their high-stakes presidential debate. >> who's ahead and wear? plus secret agent allegations. the former aide to new york governors accused of receiving lavish gifts in exchange for acting as an agent for the chinese government and a texas driver trapped in his car after flash flooding and san antonio, the terrifying moment so much as the water rose, all of it caught on video. i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn new central the new cnn polling out today with look at the state of the race in the battlegrounds that have proven to be most important, where things stand in six battlegrounds, there is a whole lot of dance we're going to get into it. >> the top lines. >> harris has the advantage in michigan and wisconsin, trump has the advantage in arizona. >> and then there's the proof of just how

before the possibility of a second trump administration, sienna national security correspondent kylie atwood is with us now from the state department. >> kylie, tell us about this urgency to get a deal done well, listen, brianna, this agreement doesn't actually need to be reviewed until the end of next year. that's more than a year from now. but there is urgency, particularly on behalf of the south koreans, because they see the possibility that former president trump could win the elections in november. and they want to avoid getting into do negotiations with officials from a potential second, trump administration. the reason for that is because during the first trump administration, there were incredibly high demands put on the south koreans when there were negotiations going on to try and renew this cost-sharing agreement. this is for the more than 28,000 us troops that are stationed in south korea, they're there for us national security reasons to try and obviously deter any attacks from north korea as they build up their nuclear program to deter aggression from china. we've seen their ag

cnn, national security correspondent kylie atwood joins us now, what are these charges on whom kylie yes. >> so the most significant person listed in this list is yahya sinwar as many folks know by now, he is the leader of hamas. he is the math mr. mind of the october 7 attacks, and he is also the person who is calling the shots in this back-and-forth between hamas and israel when it comes to an effort to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal, we should know that there are also three hamas leaders listed in here who are believed to be dead. and these charges are included number of things, but significantly, attorney general garland said that this is effectively not the end of the road. while october 7 was as it states in this complaint, the most violent, large-scale terrorist attack to date, there is still more action that these terrorists have taken since then, just look at what happened over the weekend. they killed six of those hostages, one of them, of course including an american. so the department of justice, this is the first step that they are taking to hold hamas crimin