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Senate congress committee. and well have more on the first day of jeff sessions testimony that continues today. and donald trump set to give his first news conference just hours from now. and there are new questions about contact between him, his campaign and the russian government. two u.s. officials with direct knowledge tell nbc news that briefing materials prepared for the president-elect himself included information that initially circulated among trump opponents and was passed to u.s. in...

That -- or allege that moscow has an ongoing project to cultivate a co on, donald trump for years writing back and that there had been communication between the trump campaign and russians and that russia had developed compromising information of a personal nature about donald trump. the allegations of the reports that came out during the campaign of ties between trumps inner circle, carter page, who may or may not have been close to the trump campaign but also the campaign manager and connectio...

The fbi is taking a look on exactly that. again, they havent proven anything. they havent brought any charges. we dont know how far it goes. but we do know that the fbi has been interested and looking at contacts between surrogates associated with the trump campaign and intermediaries for the russian government. again, hasnt been proved. no charges have been brought. but it is still something ongoing with the fbi. >> lets listen to what kellyanne conway said last night. we dont have a transition...

Developing overnight -- classified documents presented to president-elect donald trump include allegations that operatives from russia claim to have compromising information about donald trump, both personal and financial. how are the russians responding. we have a new response just minutes ago. stay with us on that. today may be the most significant day for trump since he won that election. hes going to face reporters for the first time since december. his nominees are getting ready to hear f...

Is airing his grievances about our story on twitter. calling it fake news. a total political witch hunt. kellyanne conway was also asked about this on late night television last night and she seemed to indicate that her boss was unaware of the claim that russia had compromising information on him. take a listen at what he said. >> nobody has sourced it. theyre all unnamed, unspoken sources in the story and it says it was based on a russian investigator to begin with. >> it was based on an mi-6 b...

Was getting into the race. and, katy, what has changed in the life of the trump transition effort was the story last night that alleged that the russians are in possession of compromising information, personally, financially, on donald trump, that it went further. that there was some evidence floating around of continued contacts between team trump and the russians. theres been an aggressive effort to push back on it in the hours since. all of it unsubstantiated. donald trump himself and his fir...

>> this confuirmation hearing, rex tillerson, we just want to take this brief opportunity to remind you that we are standing by. within the next 30 minutes to go to trump tower in new york. there is the lectern, surrounded by american flags. we are awaiting donald trumps first full-on news conference since july. much earlier this summer, he will take questions from the press corps assembled. and what a day it is to take questions from the press corps. after all, it was last night, coming into th...

Iran, its not about hurting a specific u.s. company. so while some companies like an extracting company like exxon which goes to an extracting economy like russia to extract oil ultimately may be affected. that is not universally the case. in any event, if you say no to sanctions because it may hurt some business interests, you have muted one of the most powerful peaceful diplomacy initiatives. >> we talked at the top of the show and we just talked to one of our intelligence reporters about the ...

That raise concern, that warrant a follow-up question which why it is fortuitous for the president-elect to have a press conference today. ainsley: whether or not it is true or not, we dont really know. that is what is concerning. because you shouldnt be reporting information you dont have a source for. journalism 101. steve: completely unverified. buzzfeed said, we dont know whether or not this is true but there is story floating around. so well put it out there for you to decide. ainsley: you ...

Thursday and president-elect trump on friday provided in their briefing to these two leaders about russian hacking into the u.s. 2016 election two pages of a sinopsis, and it was based in part on information uncorroborated and the intelligence chiefs had not yet run to ground, but they believed that the source of the dossier were credible and they believed that, a, the president-elect and the president should know that the russians were claiming they had compromising information on him and, two,...