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Fbi is looking into kushners role with the campaign. the report, which cited u.s. officials, also appeared to prompt an unusual statement from the justice department. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein denounced anonymous allegations and unnamed sources. he says in part, "americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they do not identify the country, let alone the branch or agency of the government with which the a...

Laelglaelg ed sources are affiliated." what was he responding to? >> well, a couple of things. what im told by people at the justice department is number one, this was his decision to do this. one official told me today, this is 100% rod. in other words, nobody put him up to this. he had -- we know, hes been bugged by a couple of things that he says are wrong from the day he came into office. there was a story that he threatened to resign over the way his handling of -- his role in the comey fir...

With fire. thats his m.o. hes always done it that way. but what hes really doing is throwing gasoline on the fire. since he fired comey, its spiraled out of control. i think there are a lot of people who would like to warn him, trying to warn him gently about possibly going too far as it pertains to rosenstein here. but so far in almost five months here, we havent really seen any staffer be able to prevent donald trump from doing something when he decides he wants to do it. >> i think thats in l...

There is precedent for that, political reasons, as margaret pointed out, for doing that. that may be a separate strategy. still dont understand why hes going after his own deputy attorney general. but let me read you a statement from the deputy attorney general last night that had us all scratching our heads before we were scratching our heads this morning by the statement from the president. rod rosenstein wrote last night, apparently without provocation, "americans should exercise caution befo...

Portion from back in january and what was said today. >> if its true, its obviously extremely serious. and if there is any evidence that any one affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator, franken, im not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at the time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. and im unable to comment on it. >> he was asked...

Potential for an explosive development. my guess, though, is that sessions having been a former senator, being been a state attorney general and prosecutor will be adept in answering these questions. if you go back to his confirmation hearing, he really came across well. my guess is that hell be able to smooth things over and have a lot of those nonanswers today. >> he really came across well, ron, until this moment that he then had to clarify with a senator. listen. >> if there is any evidence ...

Whether sessions had an additional meeting with russias ambassador to the u.s., sergey kislyak during the presidential campaign. you may remember this testimony from the attorney general back in january. >> if there is any evidence that any one affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and...

127 pages long. right there on page 1, paragraph 3, it says very clearly, it is imperative that the information provided be true and accurate to the best of your knowledge. that brings us to page 60, th part which deals with foreign contacts. it asks, do you have or have you had close and/or continuing contact with a foreign national within the last seven years. and then you have a space here to list all of those contacts. here is the problem now though for the u.s. attorney general jeff session...

>> martha: breaking tonight, the horrific images coming out of manchester, england, provide a chilling reminder of similar attacks on some of the youngest and most vulnerable in our society in years past. for more on the history of what we have seen, we go to trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom. >> the department of homeland security issued a warning to americans last september that isis was turning his attention away from military targets and venues with large numbers of civilians. it wa...

Hate crimes. >> is there anything that congress is doing to speak up about the fact that you not only have bannon and steven miller and michael anton and sebastian gorco affiliated with the nazi organization and also jeff sessions agrees with steve bannon 100% on immigration, theres nothing the congress can do about them being there, but have you heard a cry from other members that theyre meeting with these people in the room? >> youre absolutely seeing a reaction from the american people. we ha...