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Then said he did not have meetings with campaign or policy issues. what does this mean for jeff sessions? >> there has been a cloud hanging over jeff sessions for some time over this issue. the timing of this particular release is notable. remember on thursday jeff sessions had to respond to the new york times interview which donald trump said he would not have appointed him had he known sessions would recuse himself. then within a day and a half, we see the leak. one of the interesting question...

Once again, another security establishment professional in the united states, jeh johnson, now not homeland security secretary, saying that the russians interfered to some degree. yet another person saying something that sean spicer couldnt confirm to you yesterday in the white house brief. >> reporter: it was a stunning moment, ali, yesterday, in the white house press briefing room. sean spicer was asked if the president, in fact, does believe that russia was responsible for meddling in the 201...

All of the things that have accumulated in these five months which make republicans ver the t how we can conduct himself. this is a cloud hanging over him. i dont think that is the main cause, they worry is this the right time in the white house. they would assume that once he was in the white time he would be tamed, they would be able to get the agenda through, thats not happening and they will have to worry about midterm election elections. maybe some of them perhaps worry that there is a smok...

Because of the russia investigation. >> refused to pledge loyalty to a president and for that he got fired. >> the president also never told mr. comey i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. >> a cloud hanging over this administration has just gotten a lot darker. >> this is new day with chris cuomo. >> good morning, welcome to your new day. its friday june 9th, 5:00 here in new york. theres two major stories shaking up the political world. here is our starting line. the cloud of russia looming larger...

Richard nixon. >> there are two people the president is concerned about here. for some reason, general flynn -- >> always. >> -- always reminding comey, cant you tell people publicly that im really not the person you are looking at here? and, of course, comey couldnt do that because things change and there were different investigations going on and maybe he wasnt the subject of a counterintelligence investigation but maybe something else. so the president, you can just sense his frustration. thi...

Hour, more raids and police in south manchester have cordoned off an area and army bomb disposal experts are at the scene there. just as in the u.s., this is a holiday weekend in the uk. but, of course, it has a cloud hanging over it, not just the sadness that you can see written in flowers here, but also peoples very real worry that there could be another attack. .all of that despite more arrests overnight and a police chief who is confident that hes got the terror network. >> early this mornin...

The sake of the american people. because if it looks like this is just a witch hunt, demoralized people are going to be even more demoralized. >> im open to the idea of a select special committee, something along those lines but whatever comes out of it, the american people have to have confidence that we got to the bottom of it because if theres a cloud hanging over all of this, there the recriminations are going to prevail. were going to keep yelling and screaming at each other everywhere else...

Here and if president obama should have done more. >> in terms of the integrity of american institutions moving forward, in youre opinion, how might comeys removal now affect the russia investigation and the ability for all of us to get answers to the questions surrounding the election? >> well, look. im sure that the men and women of the fbi are going to continue to do that work. but the problem is, when you have a president whos fired the director who is leading that investigation, now is goin...

Operations. the three of them are among the men who had very negative feelings about comey and talked about comey to the candidate and now the president. >> there are some "time" magazine reporting that has come out. they sat down with president trump for dinner in what is a story filled with, as you know, some juicy tidbits. your colleagues paint a picture watching news coverage of the firing. can you talk a little bit about where the presidents head might be at. what is his mindset today? >> m...

This is a moment when all of us should care whether were democrats or republicans. and this is true in the house, in the senate, and all across this country. we need an independent investigation into donald trumps relationship to the russians, an investigation that all of us can believe in, an investigation that is not shaped by one political point of view or another, an independent, transparent investigation. even donald trumps most ardent supporters should want that. there should not be a clou...