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A serious ongoing counter intelligence probe into whether his election was in part the product of a conspiracy with a foreign power. i mean, that existential cloud hanging over this presidency has the president himself put it talking about it as a cloud over his administration, that is the cloud that creates the weather in washington. that is the sky under which things live and die in american politics. i dont know how much its going to be spoken about tonight, but its very hard to avoid in ever...

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Broke that remarkable story about kaspersky software. thats how we learned that before trump national security adviser mike flynn took money from kaspersky, his own agency, the defense intelligence agency, had published multiple reports and even a pentagon-wide warning saying that kaspersky was from russian intelligence. now both paul sund and shane harris are leaving "the wall street journal" as of this week. the journal has also shed devlin barrett who has been a scoop machine on a lot of stor...

High-profile jurisdictions where he personally has business or other interests. and now in this nutso news cycle were having today there are two new reports, one very high-profile, one lower profile, about president trump reportedly exerting or at least appearing to exert improper influence on the decisions of the justice department when it comes to something quite important. the lower profile incident was reported last night at the "washington post" by national security reporter devlin barrett....

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Investigation. and thats exactly whats been going on. so this is an interesting development. but its an inevitable development. well knew it was going to happen. its part of bob muellers job to look into this. the notion it somehow leaked from the fbi is something we all knew was going to happen anyway. its likely people who were contacted or new people kbakd the fbi talked about it. this is not classified information. we should be focusing on the leak here, if there was a leak. the real issue i...

Exoneration personally in this matter. and what "the washington post" story does is precisely the opposite. >> let me go to devlin barrett who broke this story for the post. tell us how it all fits together, trumps fear of a relationship perhaps. im trying to see it from trumps point of view. some concern that theres a relationship, an axis of evil as far as hes concerned between comey and mueller. and, in fact, trumps dislike for having anybody coming at him, and this is a case where theyre goi...

From the fbi is something we all knew was going to happen anyway. its likely people who were kbakd t contacted or new people kbakd the fbi talked about it. this is not classified information. we should be focusing on the leak here, if there was a leak. the real issue is did the president of the united states obstruct justice in connection with an investigation of russian espionage inside the united states? and if so, that is a very, very serious situation. it obviously should be on the very top ...

Assured president trump he was not under investigation, officials now say that changed shortly after comeys firing. this comes after "the new york times" reported that the president has been considering firing mr. mueller himself, but someone on his staff waved him off the idea warning this would make a bad situation worse. well see about that. yesterday deputy attorney general rod rosenstein assured members of congress that mr. muellers investigation would remain independent. >> director muelle...