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Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just...

How can he serve all americans . This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with esquire magazine proves it. And in august of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to esquire magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself ...

This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with Esquire Magazine proves it. And in August Of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to Esquire Magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself in the spotlight for all the wron...

But im speaking to the vast majority of the american people, as well as to the press. we do not have time for this kind of silliness. weve got better stuff to do. >> i think for a long time he treated those attacks as yet another example of how stupid politics could be, that politics is a game that, you know, its filled with name-calling and insults. >> i think the birther stuff from trump got to him. i dont know if it made him angry, because i never really saw him get angry. >> my fellow americ...

Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere. in fact, ill go a step further. the people that went to school with him, they dont even know him. they never saw him. they dont know who he is. crazy. >> i heard birther this and i kept saying, what is birther, to people. like, what is this birther stuff? well, you know, because barack obama wasnt born in hawaii. what do you mean he wasnt born in hawaii? hey, guys, i got a whole 300-and-something classmates that we all grew up toget...

At least normal. >> it was normal and sane. but i think if he looks at the polls, yes, he is very concerned about what is going to happen in this election. you have to remember, he has been governing just for his base. he hasnt been president of all of the united states. hes been the president of the minority that put him in office. and thats all he cares about, and they hated obama. they believe the birther stuff. he is playing to them. thats where his strength is, because they will turn out an...

The n-word. that has an ugly history. to make the point i wrote down the n-word in a tweet. to make the point its not nearly what the word redskins is. >> you get the combination of calling the president muslim and born in kenya, et cetera, et cetera, this paints a picture that makes people doubt your moral standing to take on someones whos primary is racism. >> john, maybe you and i disagree with this and i never got into the birther stuff. i said obama is muslim and i will get down on my knees...

The birther stuff? >> jesse: at least he got his name right. what did the column last time? what about the clinton foundation. they have $25 million from the saudis. what about the million-dollar russian dossier. that tried to influence elections. i want to be fair and balanced too. i think whitewater was probably a witch hunt too. if you look inside the trump organization, im sure youre going to find a little something or other. every bank on wall street has paid hundreds of millions of dollars...

At the time. thats when he was pushing the birther stuff, so thats not true. so on the specifics of what putin said at the press conference, look, as we reported in russian roulette, putin was well aware of trumps presence. in fact, he had been invited to attend the miss universe pageant. he cannot make it because he had a meeting with the king of holland, but he has his right-hand man and press spokesman call trump, im talking about demitri, call trump apologizing that putin cant make it and he...

Going to run for president back then, trump had publicly talked about running for president in 2011. he was widely talked about as a potential republican candidate at the time. thats when he was pushing the birther stuff, so thats not true. so on the specifics of what putin said at the press conference, look, as we reported in russian roulette, putin was well aware of trumps presence. in fact, he had been invited to attend the miss universe pageant. he cannot make it because he had a meeting wit...