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Morning about what the special counsel may want to ask the president in the russia probe. what can you tell us about that? >> well listen, this is a very interesting list in the new york sometimes as we take a look at it here from the fox perspective. what were learning is getting a bit of i think a clearer picture of what the special counsels strategy might be, sandra. let me share some of the questions. these are interesting. questions for the president like was he aware of any campaign outrea...

The 50 or so questions that have to do with whether or not the trump campaign was legally coordinating with russia. what this tells us is that the subject of collusion, despite what you hear from the white house, the fact the president, 15 times a day tweets out that there was no collusion, it tells us robert mueller is not don with the collusion question. one of the questions in particular is one in which the question says, what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including...

With the president. the white house is scheduled to hold a daily briefing any minute now. well bring you that live when sarah huckabee sanders begins taking reporter questions. lets go right to "the new york times" michael schmidt. he joins me now by phone. michael, great job as always. just walk me through what you and the times have learned. >> last summer has muller was building his cases against flynn and manafort, dowd went to their lawyers and broached the idea of a pardon with them. dowd ...

Defendants and a guy named paulie who has not talked to the feds yet sounds like an episode of "the sopranos." theres organized crime here with russia, there are thugs involved with ukraine. when you read ukraine in the charging documents, think russia. thats who was supporting the clients of manafort and gates. and that is why mueller is so focused on this. hes trying to get to the heart of the collusion question. >> frank, what is your sense of what paul manaforts real relationship is here to ...

Trump can define the terms of this debate and defend the executive branch and he can enlighten the country. but is time for doing so productive solid growing very short. "wall street journal" columnist kim strassel joins us now. thanks for being with us. >> hi, martha. you say they have to approach this from a constitutional perspective. explain. >> we were just talking about how there seems to be no there there on the collusion question. the house report is now out. by all reporting mr. mueller...

Are you sure? and trump will lie, and theyll catch him. thats what theyre trying to do. >> theyre going into the interview asking questions that they already know the answer to. i think when these reports come out that the special counsel is focusing on the obstruction of justice aspect, wanting to know what trumps intent and state of mind was when he fired james comey, when he asked for the investigation into flynn could be dropped, i think that kind of shrouds the collusion aspect, which is, o...

Offering dirt on clinton were dealt with by the trump campaign. obviously, released this in an explosive way in one day showing his work isnt done and hes pursuing both avenues. >> ari, following it all day. works not done for you. well let you prep to your show in an hour from now. thanks for stopping by. lets bring in ken delanian and kristen welker. seemed the main name is paul manafort. reporting he was likely to be indicted. the campaign chairman. hes the biggest fish there from that standp...

Congress forces a russia sanctions bill to his desk. >> my guess is hell make a decision shortly. >> and a bill coming this week but what bill? >> were going to vote to repeal and replace obamacare. the question is not a question of if, its when. jared kushner, live pictures of him leaving his hole. in one hour from now p the presidents son-in-law will be sitting down with staff of the senate intelligence committee. but first he is going public with his defense releasing a statement that insis...

Shortly thereafter, katy. >> it sounds like that answer to that question is most likely yes. >> thats what it seems like. >> michael, lets take a look at your "new york times" article. its a remarkable tick tock of what happened inside that dinner. as they ate, the president and mr. comey made small talk about the election and crowd sizes at mr. trumps rallies. the president then turned the conversation to whether mr. comey would pledge his loyalty to him. michael, pledge his loyalty. donald tru...

Obviously, he is control tag dvr and watching back certain mentions of him that arent so positive. >> yeah. i mean, the president records a large amount of cable news during the day and watches his back in a private dining room. he wants to be able to see it. he wants to bring aides if for commentary. its almost leak watching a play-by-play of a football game on sunday afternoon. the president saying, oh, chuck grassley, great question, see how he does that almost as if he draws lines on a scree...