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Pulled in jared kushner and paul manafort. is this a nugget of information that has somehow leaked from bob muellers investigation which has been pretty tight-sealed so far? >> dont know. "times" story originally yesterday said that they had been given access to documents or been able to view documents. didnt say where the documents came from. advisors to trump saying -- providing more detail about the purpose of the meeting which then prompted donald trump jr. to give his fuller statement. so i...

Welcome back. it is the bottom of the hour. well start with the mornings top stories. australian police have charged a top vatican cardinal with multiple sexual assault offenses. george pell is the most senior official and pope franciss chief financial advisor. officials say there were multiple accuse raccusers, but little details. cardinal pell says he looks forward to cleerlg his name. >> jim mattis says that the white house is warning to syria regarding a potential upcoming chemical weapons a...

To fire director comey is troubling. he should have recused himself from that decision process because it had to do directly with campaign issues. something that he had broadly recused himself. from. >> right. its almost -- its almost as if you were trying to do this decision in the sloppiest, most contradictory way possible that would invite the most potential investigations thereafter. this would sort of be the way to do it. >> well, you also dont know what was driving that. so if the presiden...

Involving any coordination between trump associates and russian officials. does that recusal extend to this area, to general flynn? >> well, my recusal deals with the campaign issues. but i would expect not to be involved in this one. >> you would recuse yourself from any decision dealing with general flynn? >> yeah, and i really dont know whether there is an investigation or should be. and we dont confirm investigations you know in the department of justice. >> john, give us historical perspect...

Person. >> its not just flynn. this is a pattern of folks in senior -- a couple of feet away from the president who do not have the proper security clearances. they cannot be doing national security work. seb gorka is an example. he has nazi ties, sits in the white house right now. supposedly working on counterterrorism issues, but does not have the appropriate clearances and has raised flags for people. >> lets talk about the attorney general of the united states. because this is another unusua...

Get them through t. doesn. it doesnt matter. this is why you vet people because you actually do sometimes have to face consequences if you miss this stuff. >> and to understand the tangled web of this, we dont understand where its going and perhaps general flynn did nothing wrong and thats what the fgz will show -- investigation will show in then. if this becomes something thats processed for the justice department, we do know this. the attorney general, the man in charge, will have nothing to d...

Ivanka trump on nightly news and full coverage on today. we will take a break. when i come back, we will hear from the voters in indianapolis as we approach president trumps 100th day in office. we are there talking to students about president trumps key campaign issues, jobs and the economy. i cant wait for her to have that college experience that i had. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, im glad shell miss when you ...

Who calls in on a radio show. john, kudos to you. but its really interesting to me that over 60% of the american people say this is an issue thats important to them. >> 68%. >> 68%. its not just about the tax returns, its about what it means about his character, about the lack of transparency. thats why this is a big issue for democrats. its not about going back to campaign issues. theyre saying, hey, this is becoming pattern and practice of this administration. there are a lot of things going o...

Know before the bell. hi, christine. >> hi. a stellar first quarter for the stock market. big gains for all three major averages led by the nasdaq. look at. that up almost 10%. it was going by the prospect of tax reform, deregulation, and infrast infrastructure spending. it seems for now investors remain pretty optimistic. the big story coming up this week, jobs, jobs, jobs. the government monthly reading on the labor market is due on friday. in february, the economy gained 235,000 new jobs. the...

Would expect the fbi director under oath to say something about it. finally, not as great political interest the ongoing recusal questions and director comey will hear about those because some democrats have concerns about the inquiry after sessions announced recused with regard to campaign issues. >> nicole? >> you mentioned leaks. house republicans on this committee wish we were sitting here talking about all day today would be what they view as unprecedented leaks from the intel community abo...