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Guilt evidence. thats when somebody lies about a material fact and that fact -- the fact of them lying can be used against that person because it would be, in essence, an effort to cover up what happened. if you were telling the truth, you wouldnt have anything to cover up. with respect to some of the contacts that you referred to between russia and trump campaign officials, are you aware of any of those u.s. persons who had contact with russia either making false statements about those contacts...

The people around him. >> right. this is an interesting test for all the people who still work in this business and work for the president. how much are you willing or unwilling to publicly contradict him when the facts are what they are? obviously weve reported that the president reached out to him and asked him to publicly say there was no collusion, and he wouldnt do that. he didnt want to talk about it yesterday under oath, and its obviously a difficult political situation for him to be in, ...

This investigation gets into the white house, whats within the presidents power to try to do to shut it down? what could he do to shut this investigation down or to try to blow it off course? we have some very striking new news on that for you tonight coming up in educational background with somebody whos very much in a position to know how that would work. thats one. nail that down. how could anybody derail this investigation now that its getting this close to the president? the other thing we ...

Number one, as this fbi investigation starts rattling change this loudly, as they get this close to the president as this investigation gets into the white house, whats within the presidents power to try to do to shut it down? what could he do to shut this investigation down or to try to blow it off course? we have some very striking new news on that for you tonight coming up in just a second with somebody who is very much in a position to know how that would work. thats one. nail that down. how...

Hes national security reporter for the "washington post." he broke this very big news. its turned up a person of interest working as a senior white house adviser. someone, quote, close to the president. mr. barrett, thank you for joining us on a big day. congratulations on the scoop. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> let me just ask you. in terms of my describing your story, did i get that right? did i mess anything up there? >> no, i think you got it exactly right. i think the importance o...

To face. >> yeah, and seeing stuff happen before your own eyes. >> thats right. >> devlin barrett, national security reporter for the "washington post." very impressive historic reporting. lots of kids in this country who are looking at you realizing they want to be you when they grow up. i hope you can enjoy it even though youre working very hard. >> thank you, rachel. >> there is more new in this story today. stay with us. ♪ whether youre after supreme performance... advanced intelligence......

Only learn so much through intelligence gathering and record gathering before you have to start talking to people face to face. >> yeah, and seeing stuff happen before your own eyes. >> thats right. >> devlin barrett, national security reporter for "the washington post." very impressive historic reporting. lots of kids in this country who are looking at you realizing they want to be you when they grow up. i hope you can enjoy it even though youre working your butt off right now. >> thank you, ra...

The senate intelligence committee has barely begun and the house intelligence committee was derailed. by its own chief. i think that this story is going to be with us for month and i think it will torment trump well into next year. >> we had this very interesting report from the "washington post," reporter devlin barrett here talking about that. he said in his reporting for that story and "washington post" reporting for that story, theyre looking at the impact of the firing of people who are doi...

In other words, youre waging war on us and war can be waged in the other direction tonight. gulp. it is chilling. joining us, mr. barrett, he was writing on it when we called him. thank you for being here. >> happy to be here. >> let me ask you about the remarkable sourcing here and how up front youre being about more than two dozen people, 30 sources you were able to speak to on the record unanimously, in most case, for this story. tell me about that sourcing. >> you see a bunch of names on the...

To why they were asserting the privilege, why they think it applies in this case, particularly to the nonclassified information. yates position has always been, i can talk about -- yates can talk about -- the nonclassified parts of the discussion. but apparently, the white house kept signaling no on that. first the justice department delivered that message, and then as the argument went on, the justice department said, look, you have to talk directly to the white house. and when yates lawyer eng...