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Hillary clinton. he brought her name up three times just yesterday and hes tweeting about her this morning. that said, a top white house aid is blaming us for forcing them to think and talk about hillary clinton. we have it all covered. lets begin with cnns joe jones live at the white house. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, chris. the president clearly frustrated this morning, making contradictory assertions, suggesting an interview with the special counsel and the russia investigat...

A called discovery. if it were to go to court the author and publisher would be compelled potentially to produce all the evidence that he had, including possible tapes, transcripts, whatever they have, to prove the assertions that are in the book. that opens up a whole different set of problems. i also question whether it is possible to hold government officials to non-disclosure agreements the way we see typically done in the private sector. i think that a court challenge of that would be very ...

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Has not really ever specified how that would be accomplished. wolf? >> he keeps saying in some form. thanks very much, jim acosta. much more on the extraordinary white house meeting coming up. also breaking right now over republican objections, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee has released testimony about the trump/russia dossier. lets go to our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, tell our viewers what youre learning. >> reporter: stunning development today, w...

And heard about what steve bannon is said to have told michael wolff. the president was asked about mr. bannon. and he said, look, the forthcoming book is obviously an issue. it is called "fire and fury" for the folks at home that do not know. bannon in the book makes a number of assertions including one of the president once refused to hire somebody because he had a mustache. that the presidents daughter, again, this is according to another exert was "dumb as a brick." bannon did not disavow th...

Of any white house interview with the author of the explosive new book "fire and fury." what did you make of all of it? >> reporter: he was certainly trying to discredit the credibility of the author and undercut many of the headline-grabbing assertions made in the book "fire and fury" where author michael wolff talks to a number of insiders, as he describes it, who paint a picture of a white house that has been not only chaotic but where people around the president have described him as child-l...

Told a totally made up story of president obama not being able to land air force one in the philippines. that was a false story. the president told it in the cabinet room. that was a false story and he told it again with more completely made up embellished details to a group of reporters several days later. the first time he told it he decided to keep telling it and troy to g try to get it in the press. a guy on "fox and friends" told him to and he did not know what his own policies to be. it is...

Business is looking really good for next year, only to be helped further by our tax cut bill. will be a great year for companies and jobs, jobs in all caps. stock market is poised for another year of success. brianna, its clear the president feeling like this is a big victory for his administration and he wants to make sure that the american people know all about it. brianna? >> ryan nobles, thank you so much for that. i want to dig a little deeper now into the trump/russia dossier and how it fi...

Sanctions. that solemn assertion from the vice president also cannot be true. its just utterly implausible. the vice president also solemnly intoned in his sort of trademark more in sorrow than in anger solemnly intoned that he had never been notified that mike flynn wads on a foreign government payroll when he was operating as national security adviser. mike pence was definitely notified that he was on a foreign payroll. despite his solemn assertions to the contrary. i dont know if this will ev...

Authority to prevent russian attacks and the dhs took eight months before telling states they were even targeted by russia. as for the past, sessions answered some questions and left many more on the table. with me now, the man you just heard from, senator sheldon white house. >> the gateway question is to work through the nonassertion, assertion of executive privilege. there have been a lot of questions pertinent to our understanding of that set of facts have gone unanswered. and it is appropri...