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>> and richard painter, the presidents behavior here has changed the shape of the investigation, as devlin just said. not just from campaign and transition interactions, but now what about obstruction of justice of that investigation, of campaign and transition interactions, which all makes you wonder about what is it, what is it that the trump administration, the president in particular didnt want people to find in the original investigation? because thats what he was getting in the way of. >> ...

>> thats how i ask a question. whats the problem, devlin? lets go. >> speak, devlin. >> heres the thing. heres how i see it. part of whats interesting to me about what were reporting is that, you know, people have been framing the comey/trump dynamic as essentially a he said/he said. what i think is interesting about the current state of the investigation is their trying to figure out, okay, who can corroborate comeys version or trumps version of events, and theyre looking at frankly senior gove...

Trumps personal lawyer, marc kasowitz -- now hes got a lawyer for spokespeople. following the statement in response to "the washington post" reporting, quote, the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous and inexcusable, and illegal. lets go to the guy who got the story. devlin, are you guilty of all those crimes? i mean it just seems like anything that gets reported unofficially about this administration, he didnt put out in some sort of bleep or whatever, tweet, is somehow...

Fbi. kasowitz wanted to inject into that story their beef with the fbi. it is not something that your story ascertained. it is clear -- i think the tell of kasowitzs statement is they want to pick that fight with comey, and they want to pick that fight with the fbi. >> thats right. and ill be honest. from where i sit, its not clear to me how much they even differentiate between mueller and the fbi and comey at this point. but youre absolutely right that our story doesnt put any of this on fbi of...

So what youre seeing is youre seeing them gather up a bunch of witnesses and see what the totality of that is. >> okay. let me ask glenn. if you were to have like a universal judgment like we studied religion, where everybody is going to be in the room and know the full truth. >> i hope not, man. >> in this case, i hope were going to get close. who would you want in the room to find out whether there was obstruction of justice here, which is now apparently going to the subject of this general co...

Tonight were learning about another possible target of russias efforts to meddle in the u.s. election. a new "washington post" report revealing that the fbis investigation of hillary clintons e-mails may have been influenced by the russians and a secret and possibly fake document. were joined by devlin barrett, one of the "washington post" reporters who broke this story. devlin, great to have you on. was james comey actually swayed by this document? >> a number of officials a said that this docu...

Director james comeys decision to basically cut lynch out of the final decision-making process on the clinton case. the document cites an email, doesnt have the email inside it but claims, the author claims to have seen an email describing this secret agreement, and it basically its multiple layers of hearsay involving four people. and what we found when we, the reporter, called up those four people is that none of them know each other, andhey all deny having any cversations remotely like this. ...

Both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him." the rest of the story, right now, we wont take a break. lets move on now and talk about that. and also a new report tonight on alleged russian interference in the investigation of hillary clintons e-mails. i want to bring in now devlin barrett, a national security reporter for "the washington post" who broke the story. also, stewart kaplan, a former fbi agent and steve hall, retired chief of cia russian operations. im going to speak with yo...

So were clear, i dont know this person, ive never communicated with this person, i have no idea what were tayourg about. >> to think they would have done that -- >> according to the people who describe this conversation with her, the agents tell the attorney general this document has no investigative value. thats what they tell her. >> this is scary. >> as you said, alarming. if this actually influenced james comey and all they could have done is pick up the phone and call debbie wasserman-schul...

And also with the tensions that certainly exist. chris? >> thank you so much, kelly odonnell. i want to bring in "the washington post" national security reporter devlin barrett. obviously in any other circumstance, where you didnt have a terror attack and these questions about leaks, russia would always be at the top of the nato agenda, but your big headline this morning from "the washington post" is how a dubious russian document influenced the fbis handling of the clinton probe. talk to us abo...