it is 11:00 on the east coast. i am fredricka whitfield. "newsroom" starts right now. right now, two major stories hangover president trump as he spenl spends the weekend in new jersey. the white house remains silent as russia shapes the narrative on the controversial and stunning summit with russian president vladimir putin. the russian foreign minister saying it was, quote, better than super. now president trump says he is ready for round two. this time he is hoping putin will come to the white house this fall. and the second major story, a secret tape now in the hands of the fbi. it is a recording between trump and his former attorney michael cohen discussing a payment to a former playboy model to alleged an affair with trump back in 2006. trump tdenied that alleged affair. a source says when trump learned of the secret recording he said

quote i can't believe michael would do this to me. why did the president waive privilege on this recording to give the fbi access? we'll discuss. first, let's start with possible upcoming second summit with vladimir putin. our cnn white house reporter sarah westwood joins us from new jersey. what do we know about the planned meeting thus far? >> reporter: well, fred, despite the fears, bipartisan backlash to president trump's performance alongside vladimir putin this week, trump is essentially doubling down on his russia policy by rolling out plans for a second summit. the white house stunned even some of trump's own cabinet members thursday when it announced plans to invite putin to the white house sometime this fall. the russian president hasn't stepped foot in the white house in more than a decade. trump asks his national security adviser john bolton to extend that invitation even as the fire

storm on capitol hill was raging with democratic and republican lawmakers, slamming trump over his refusal to take a harder line with russia over its aggression in ukraine and syria. chuck schumer was among the democrats calling on the administration to reveal what trump and putin discussed in the first summit before making plans to host round two on american soil because remember five days later we still know very little about what took place in that summit. some senior administration officials are still in the dark because trump and putin met alone with translators, even some republicans are wary about the prospect of a second summit this fall. gop congressional leaders made clear putin won't be receiving an invitation to the capitol in washington and this will be in the fall before mid terms. >> all right. thanks so much. cnn senior international correspondent joins me from moscow. sam, the white house has said

very little about the content of the trump, putin meeting in helsinki and that's left it up to moscow to control the spin. what has the kremlin been saying? >> reporter: well, they're still in control of it. just in the last half hour, ministry of foreign affairs saying sergei lavrov who was referred to as the man said that the helsinki summit was better than super and magnificent, he had a call today with mr. pompeo, secretary of state, in which according to the russians, everything is coming from the russians at the moment, they discussed the normalization of diplomatic relations. now that's something that obviously russia is anxious to do because in the end that would mean lifting of sanctions imposed on it over illegal annexation of crimea. also and this will go down a storm i say in washington,

demanding the immediate release of mariia butina. the russians are demanding her release. they started a social media campaign in which they asked followers to replace twitter pictures on facebook and other social media with her image. now they're making that as a direct demand. more strategically important is this continued energy that they're driving that they're in charge of the diealogue. they been releasing and have come up with the idea to normalize diplomatic relations. >> thanks so much.

let's talk to david swer lig, steve hall, and cnn global affairs correspondent elise lavit. still no clarity from the white house on what was discussed or promised, so why does this white house think scheduling another meeting with putin this time at the white house is beneficial? >> yeah, good morning, fred. i think if you look at what happened this week with the president and president putin helsinki and look back a few weeks ago to north korea, a meeting that took place between kim jong-un and president trump in singapore that's since not yielded that much fruit, you see that president trump displays at times a feeling that meetings in and of themselves are accomplishments. he likes the pageantry of meetings, he likes the idea he is moving chess pieces on the

world stage, and what you have here at home is people on both sides of the aisle, in the intelligence establishment and in the state department saying let's get to work on policy goals. although they are at work, the president's rhetoric with regard to president putin helsinki and actual goals of the united states with sanctions and so on, there's a disconnect between those. i think that's what caused so much controversy this week. >> listen to what the secretary of state, mike pompeo said about a possible second summit. >> i'm happy two leaders of two important countries are continuing to meet. if that meeting takes place in washington, it is all to the good. those conversations are incredibly important. we have senior leaders meeting across the world with people who we have deep disagreements with. it is incredibly valuable to people of the united states of america that president putin and president trump continue to

engage in dialogue to resolve difficult issues our countries face. it makes enormous sense. we are hopeful this meeting will take place this fall. >> so no real clarity from his point of view of what was discussed might this time the secretary of state be present or someone else be present during a second meeting? >> we certainly hope so, fred. i mean look, the two delegations did meet before that big meeting. doesn't seem to be any agreements were there. all of these agreements that the russians are laying out supposedly took place. secretary pompeo is one of the few people who actually know what went on in the meeting between president trump and president putin. he had lunch with the president the other day. but all of this talk about why a second summit is so important and so valuable, maybe the american people would understand a little more if the white house and state department were able

to put out information about what was agreed to. nobody received any instructions as a result of this meeting, so the narrative that the russians are putting out sounds wonderful. everyone would like to know what the wonderful progress is. there's a lot of frustration in the state department and in the administration because there's such little information. a lot of frustration. >> steve, it is what the president would or wouldn't say or clarity or lack thereof that really provoked you to tell anderson cooper on air that you do believe now there must be some kompromat, something the russians have on trump to make him seem so wishy washy. what is it about what was or wasn't said, did or didn't happen makes you feel more so is the case? >> after helsinki, fred, there doesn't seem to be a better explanation as to why the

president is behaving as he is towards vladimir putin, having second summits, talking and giving victories easily to the kremlin. secretary pompeo is off and showing the naivety of the united states. the russians play chess and sometimes we play checkers. all the things the russians have done from annexation of crimea and other things, they knew at some point in the long run-down the road, the united states would try our typical western approach, say shouldn't we be talking to people we disagree with? we ought to be talking with the canadians and steel imports, but when you talk about brutal dictators that kill people, those rnaren't people you talk with, those are people you contain. >> even fox news asked pompeo about lawmakers who raised this possibility that russia has something on trump.

listen to his reaction. >> i think those allegations are absurd. this administration has been relentless in its efforts to deter russia from its bad behavior. we inherited a situation where russia was running all over the united states. the last few days have been frankly more heat than light. this administration has been strong in supporting the ukrainians, strong in making sure we are protected against russian expansion in other parts of the world. we all recognize that threat is real and president trump has been strong in protecting america from russian aggression. >> is he convincing to you or is he naive to you? >> i'm still waiting for an explanation as to why it is, if it is not kompromat that the russians have om president trn trump, why is it he treats president putin differently than other leaders. he has no problem being strong with kim jong-un, saying my nuclear button is bigger than yours. no problems being stronger on china and starting a trade war.

yet when he comes on the stage with vladimir putin and acts in an object seek we us fashion, after a meeting where nobody else was present, you have to ask what is the best explanation for that. i keep coming back to look, it seems to me like there's got to be something they have on him, else he wouldn't be acting this way. i hope there's a better explanation. i am waiting for it. >> how does the second of state sell this when he doesn't seem to know what happened? >> i think he generally knows what they discussed in terms of topic issues. to steve's point, everything you say about treating of a dicta dictator, the u.s. and russia have to talk to one another. obviously we talk about ukraine and syria, nuclear proliferation, the idea of a nustar treaty, these are areas the u.s. has to talk about. what i think people are looking

for is more explanation from president trump himself or secretary pompeo about where those issues are going with russia. there's nothing wrong with talking. everyone would have wanted president trump to come out like leaders do, like he has as steve said with other leaders and say we talked in specifics about syria. he said it was wonderful, it was great, and there's this great relationship. i think the american people would feel more comfortable or not. the mystery is what is allowing the russians to shape the narrative and lack of response from the u.s. is very puzzling. >> david, it is all very perplexing, even more so when you see the director of national intelligence dan coats in aspen seemingly caught off guard by news that there was a second meeting. i mean, his best description was

that's going to be special. the administration has put itself in quite the bind, advocating for something that intelligence is even confused about. >> it is head scratching, wondering what this is all about, and lack of information trickling down from the president to someone like coats and should be briefed in. i wanted to say i agree with elise. russia is a nuclear armed power and member of u.n. security council. chief global rival. of course we have to talk to them, we have to talk to china. the president is right about that. the question is do you do it in helsinki, at the u.n. or do you invite vladimir putin, someone who your own intelligence services said directly ordered intervention in elections in

2016. >> do you do it with transparency, with some recording, record keeping of what was and wasn't. steve, i mean, russia, they know it better than anybody else exactly how to change the dialogue, direct the narrative. how to get the upper hand which have they done? >> and that's, look, i am not disagreeing that we ought not be talking with the russians. however, look what's happened. moscow has taken over propaganda role they do and spinning it how they want to. let's talk to russia, let's not have summits with them. take nuclear weapons and arms treaties, those are very important but are also very technical. you don't need donald trump and your guess is as good as mine how much he understands nuclear treaties. you need experts to talk about that. you need pull asides. there are positive implications to talking to the russians just to talk to them, which apparently is what donald trump likes to do.

>> all right. we'll leave it there. thanks so much. still ahead, sex, lies, audiotapes. white house waives attorney/client privilege, discussing a former playboy model. why trump's attorney rudy guiliani -- what he has to say. a survivor of the duck boat tragedy that lost several family members describes the moment she thought she would drown. >> i was yelling, i was screaming. finally i said lord, just let me die. let me die. i said i can't keep drowning. >> oh my goodness. a live report on that tragedy next. a hit job from a bike? president george h.w. bush's former doctor gunned down by a bicyclist while the doctor was also on a bike. was this a random shooting?

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many questions remain after a duck boat accident. all 17 victims range from the age of 1 to 76 have now been identified. a mother that lost nine family members, including her three children, sharing how she struggled to survive as the boat went under. >> i couldn't see anything, couldn't see anything. i was yelling and streaming. finally i said lord, let me die, let me die. i can't keep drowning, i just can't keep drowning. then i just let go and started floating. i was floating up to the top. felt the water temperature raise

to warm. as i felt the water temperature raise, i jumped up and saw the big boat that sits out there, i don't know what kind of boat, it is huge. when i saw them, they were throwing out life jackets to people. i said jesus, please keep me, keep me, so i can get to my children, keep me, lord. >> what a horrifying sequence of events. cnn correspondent kaylee hartung joins us from branson, missouri. what more are investigators saying? >> reporter: investigators are saying it could take a year to deliver a detailed report on what led to the deaths, 17 people at table rock lake. 4 of 14 survivors, including tia coleman who you just heard from remain hospitalized today. speaking to her, other survivors and the eyewitnesses from thursday's tragedy will be key to the long investigation ahead.

cell phone video capturing moments before the amphibious tour boat carrying 31 people capsized on table rock lake near branson, missouri. the duck boats struggling, fighting 60 miles per hour winds and massive waves before overturning after 7:00 p.m. thursday evening. a severe thunderstorm warning issued a half hour before the boat capsized. >> my understanding is when the boat went in the water it was calm. part way coming back is when the waves picked up and then obviously swamped the boat. >> western union its, we need a water rescue, will be north of the showboat. 30 individuals in the water. >> reporter: ranging from 1 to 70 in age, 11 members of one family were on the boat.

nine of them died when it sank. >> they're somewhat in shock of the incident, trying to figure out all of the things that happened in that tragic event, but it was tough, tough to go in and talk to them, to see them in that position. all of us that have family members and children, you know, it is just hard to imagine being in that situation. >> reporter: choppy waves began to crash against two duck boats in missouri lake. courtney parker was on the boat a few feet in front of the one that sank. my husband was holding our daughter, tried to get life jackets and jump off, then we got out of it, made it to the ramp. i turned around, watched the other boat nose dive and my heart dropped. officials say there were life jackets on the boat, it is unclear if anyone was wearing them. among those killed, the driver of the boat, bob williams. a second crew member, the captain, among the 14 survivors. according to survivor tia coleman, she says the crew

explained where the life jackets were, said they wouldn't need them. said when swells began to come into the boat, no one moved for a life jacket. they were instructed to stay seated. fred, that boat still at the bottom of this lake. no timetable on when it will be resumed. investigators are saying that will be important moving forward, but tia coleman saying she expects when the boat is found, all life jackets will still be on board. >> heartbreaking. kaylee hartung. our hearts go out to all of them. thanks so much. still to come. leaked tapes expose president trump and then attorney michael cohen discussing payment to a playboy playmate. this as we learn the president has waived any attorney/client privilege on that recording. we'll discuss next. alright, i brought in new max protein ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein.

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the white house waived privilege on a secretly recorded conversation between donald trump and michael cohen. that means they can assess that as part of investigation into trump's former lawyer. on that particular tape, then candidate trump and cohen are heard discussing a payment to a former playboy model, and it is not the only recording that cohen has made. here's cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. >> reporter: michael cohen secretly recorded multiple conversations with donald trump, sources tell cnn, those tapes are now in the hands of federal investigators. two months before the election, cohen recorded a conversation with trump discussing a payment

to the former playboy model karen mcdougal according to trump's current attorney rudy guiliani. mcdougal claims she had a nearly yearlong affair right after melania gave birth to baron in 2006. >> he is a nice looking man, liked his charisma. >> reporter: she said trump tried to hand her cash after her first night together. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me and i actually didn't know how to take that. >> did he actually try to hand you money? >> he did. >> reporter: trump denies the affair. she says she didn't take the money and sold the story, the tabloid never published it. guiliani said trump didn't know he was recorded in that discussion, but on the tape trump and cohen discussed buying rights to mcdougal's story from ami, parent company of the in enquirer. trump encouraged to pay by check

to be documented according to guiliani. that was one of several seized during a raid of cohen's hotel room, apartment, and office in april. there are other tapes of michael cohen and other powerful individuals that the fbi seized, beyond the president, that could be embarrassing for the people on the tape and for cohen, according to a source familiar with the tapes. prosecutors in new york city are investigating election law violations related to payments michael cohen made to women who allege sexual encounters with trump. stormy daniels received $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair. she since sued trump over that agreement. daniels' attorney is urging cohen to release the recordings. >> if michael cohen in fact is a true patriot as he wants the american people to believe and as lanny davis wants the american people to believe, then michael cohen should release all of the audio recordings and i will tell you for a fact there's more than one, there's multiple recordings, and all of them

should be released for the benefit of the american public. >> reporter: for now, michael cohen isn't commenting. he has been seen on the streets of new york city, stayed mostly silent at least publicly. he sat down with george stephanopoulos off camera earlier this month, signaling his willingness to work with special counsel robert mueller, stressing his family, not the president, comes first. and late last night after a week of twisted words from the white house regarding russia, cohen quoted the legendary broadcaster walter cronkite and said it has never been more important than it is now for everyone to distinguish between innuendo and fact. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> let's talk more about all of this. michael zellden, analyst and former prosecutor, and political reporter for bloomberg. good to see you both. michael, you first. two sources tell cnn that the president and his attorneys waived privilege on the recorded conversation, allowing the fbi investigators to have access to that tape, so that leaking this

tape takes away potentially from the power of cohen. is that the strategy? >> so it is very hard to know what actually is going on here. if you remember, fredricka, the way the process worked was that the fbi seized documents, including tapes presumably from cohen that they then were reviewed by the special master to determine what was privileged and what was not privileged and then after that determined and each party made a statement with respect to it, she then presumably passed material onto the federal prosecutors now, so they're in possession of that, which is not otherwise privileged. whether this fit into that privilege material or not we just don't know and whether it was privileged and then cohen's team leaked it or rudy guiliani leaked it, we don't know that either, so it is hard to figure

out what the strategic legal position is with regard to leaking it. the only one that talked about the contents of it is rudy guiliani. rudy guiliani may have waived privilege inadvertently. >> then your idea, michael, on the fact that the president has said and inferred that if there were some recordings between you and his attorney, that might be illegal. what is the case on that, if there were recordings and whether it was interaction with trump or other clients, how legal or illegal is that? >> two things. first, michael cohen recording with his clients, legal clients without their permission may be a violation of ethics rules which may jeopardize his practice, license to practice

law. in new york whether or not one person recording without consent of the other violates new york statutes really is pretty fact dependent, so it may be that the recording violates new york law, it may be that it puts michael cohen's law license in jeopardy, and it may be something that's of interest to the federal prosecutors, the contents of which will fit into the examination of whether or not these payments or alleged payments violent federal election law. >> and then losing your law license may seem like small potatoes when michael cohen is potentially worried about his family and going to jail, et cetera. if cohen indeed has a trove of recorded conversations, how worried do you suppose the white house is without the content of this recording or other recordings? >> we know michael cohen was the president's lawyer as well as his fixer, his business intermediary. previously bragged how he would take a bullet for the president.

that all seems to have changed in the last few weeks and months where cohen is under the gun in the southern district of new york for potential campaign finance violations. the big question i have here with these recordings here is what happened to attorney/client privilege as you were discussing with michael. was it in fact waived, and if so why. and if it wasn't waived, was it pierced by the special master. if it was pierced, that would suggest as my understanding goes that the conversation was believed to have been done potentially in furtherance of a crime or fraud, that would certainly make for an interesting piece of evidence in court. tapes obviously make for excellent evidence and prosecutors love those because you can't really cross examine them. so the question, i guess there's the core question of what happens next and political question with three and a half months before a major election. how do voters perceive this. >> michael cohen's attorney says guiliani's statements,

exculpatory evidence is spin, says his client, michael cohen, has really nothing to worry about with this recording. so is there some real evidence that perhaps michael cohen might be willing to flip or cooperate with prosecutors to save his own hide? >> that seems to be the question. the idea of michael cohen flipping seemed unheard of months ago before this happened, before the radid on cohen happened and people were raising questions. there's this particular case and the fact that cohen knows a lot, knew a lot about trump's business interest. he was intermediary between some business partners that the trump organization tried to work with or some of which they did not end up working with in places like azer by john and georgia. that's also of interest to people. what michael cohen knows, how much he knows, how much he is willing to disclose seems to be the big question that would make the white house nervous. >> thanks to you both.

appreciate it. more questions and answers after the president's widely criticized private meeting with vladimir putin. the only people in the room are the president and their interpreters. what really went down? just ahead, a man in that situation before as an interpreter for president reagan. we'll get his take next. if these packs have the same number of bladder leak pads, i bet you think bigger is better. actually, it's bulkier. always discreet quickly turns liquid to gel,

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welcome back. there's no word if a private meeting with president trump is in the cards if vladimir putin does visit the white house this fall. despite loud criticism from democrats and some republicans, the leaders met by themselves in helsinki. no advisers in the room, just two interpreters. i want to bring in a russian interpreter who has his own experience in high level meetings. he worked interpreting for ronald reagan during his summit with soviet leader gorbachev in iceland. good to see you. so what do you remember about who was in the room between gorbachev, reagan, you, the other interpreter, who else? >> okay, you mention iceland. the first meeting was in geneva in 1985, and in that meeting it was just reagan, gorbachev,

myself and the soviet interpreter. in iceland by the time they had met in iceland, there were note takers there in addition to reagan, gorbachev, myself and the soviet interpreter. if you want to draw parallel, it would be the meeting in geneva rather than the iceland meeting. >> interesting. so are you put in a position where you are also taking notes, so besides listening and immediately translating you are also taking notes? >> yes. the way it works is that let's say reagan said something, he spoke for a little while, and i'm taking notes as he is speaking. when he finishes speaking, i look at my notes from what he is saying and put that into russian for gorbachev. then gorbachev listens, he replies, at that moment his interpreter is taking notes and i'm also taking notes on what gorbachev is saying, and the

soviet interpreter will then put it into english for reagan. so the process is kind of long. initially they expect the meeting to last 20 minutes, well, that's unrealistic because 20 minutes back and forth is not that. when you do it through interpreters, it is cut in a quarter. it leaves only five minutes for each side to speak which is unrealistic, which is what happened with the first meeting between president trump and president putin the g 20. >> when you hear about a two hour meeting or two and a half hour meeting between putin and trump, it isn't two and a half hours of actual talking because of the translation. how would you say that is equivalent. >> in other words, each side in a two hour meeting gets one quarter of that time because it is interpreted and so on. in a two hour meeting, each side, trump and putin gets one half hour. and that's the whole thing.

people think that in a two hour meeting, it will be way too long or i think it was scheduled for a half hour. half hour each side will get seven and a half minutes which is totally unrealistic. >> because there was no one else as far as we know, no recordings in the meeting between putin and trump, is it fair in your view that an interpreter, translater would be put in a position of having to convey the content of that meeting after the fact? >> i'm not sure what you mean having to convey. in other words the way it worked in my case and probably in this case as well i can only assume is after the meeting is over, since i have taken notes on everything that's taken place, including the president's remarks and remarks of the soviet leader in this case putin, i would then dictate to a secretary the results of that meeting, in other words, there would be a memorandum about the whole meeting that i would have dictated to the secretary, to a

secretary. >> in other words, do you like the idea that there have been some who have discussed whether the interpreter should testify on capitol hill, should be asked however many days now, at least a week now after the summit about what was discussed between the two men? >> yeah. i think that's totally atrocious. when i first heard that, i couldn't believe it. in my 30 years experience as an interpreter, i retired 20 years ago, since then i have never heard of any such thing. can you imagine a foreign leader, any foreign leader want to meet with an american leader thinking you know whatever we say, they're going to call the interpreter to congress and tell she or he, going to tell them exactly what we said. it would be impossible. totally atrocious. i talked to other interpreters, those that like trump and don't like trump, they think this is

crazy. >> is it your feeling it would be atrocious because note taking isn't comprehensive enough to do that or you believe that would violent th -- violate the trust in a setting like that. >> of course. the interpreter is an extension of the president or secretary of state, he is not an independent entity, so it is not someone that can be quizzed inched penned -- independently of that. that's an extension of the president. >> thank you so much for your time. appreciate the expertise. >> my pleasure. we'll be right back. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics... ...there's febreze fabric refresher. febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've... ...gone noseblind to.

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we're still waiting on an official readout of that summit from the white house. and now president trump says he's ready for round two. this time, he's hoping putin will come to the white house this fall. our cnn white house reporter sarah westwood joins us live from nearby trump's gulf resort in bedminister, new jersey, where he is this weekend. what more do we know about what the white house wants to say about what happened? >> well, fred, despite the intense backlash to president trump's performance alongside vladimir putin this week, trump is essentially doubling down on his russia policy by making plans to host a second summit here in the u.s. the white house stunned even some of trump's own cabinet members on thursday when it announced plans to invite putin to the white house later this fall. trump asked national security adviser john bolton to relay that message to moscow even as the fire storm on capitol hill was still