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Information about possible contacts between president trumps campaign aides and russia before mr. trump took office. the officials quickly spreading information about russias efforts to leave a clear trail of intelligence. the white house has repeatedly denied any such contact. >> at what point -- how many people have to say that theres nothing there before you realize theres nothing there? >> reporter: on facebook this morning a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry disputing cnns chara...

Himself from any russia investigations. cnns sunlen serfaty is life from capitol hill with this developing story. >> reporter: very swift reaction on capitol hill. many lawmakers saying sessions needs to recuse himself and calling for a special prosecutor and others going one step farther. a handful of democrats saying sessions needs to resign including nancy pelosi who says in a statement, quote, sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign. the...

Last year with russias ambassador, and that person is considered by u.s. intelligence agencies to be a high level spy. >> thats interesting. the attorney general says he never talked to any russian personnel about the campaign. but these revelations come in the justice department. thats where the reports are coming from, from "the washington post." sessions during his confirmation hearings certainly gave information that was inaccurate. moments ago the attorney general was speaking out about the...

Ambassador last september in his senate office. the white house blasting allegations by leading democrats that he mislead congress as partisan politics. in a statement saying, quote, sessions met with the ambassador in an official capacity as a member of the senate armed services committee which is entirely consistent with his testimony. sessio sessions spokeswoman says there was nothing misleading about his answer. the denials from sessions and the white house are in direct conflict with what t...

Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself. so what is next for attorney general jeff sessions? lets get to "the bottom line" with cnn political director david chalian. good morning, david. >> good morning, alisyn. >> another day, another russian intrigue. maybe there is nothing there as attorney general sessions just said to nbc news when they caught up with him this morning. let me play this for you. >> well, i have not met with any russians at any time to discuss any political c...

President trump will continue to be briefed on everything, but he is likely to give some more confidence, more authority to the defense secretary, to his top generals when they say they want to do something, hes likely to approve it much more quickly. if some of these missions go wrong, if they turn tragic, it may be a risk for the president. >> barbara starr, thank you for that reporting. mike rogers, thank you as always. >> thanks, guys. good to see you. we want to let you know the man who q...

A blatant interference in a democratic countrys elections. i dont think it had any impact one way or the other. i would suggest the same thing is probably true here. >> i appreciate your conclusions, congressman. hopefully well get the investigations to get the proof for them soon enough. appreciate you being on the show as always. >> thanks for the invitation. >> always. coming up, what does senator al franken think about this, where does he think it should go from here? just as we extended t...

On his way in but while trump was still running for president, during the campaign, while russia was interfering in the u.s. election to try to elect donald trump president, his top national security advisor on the campaign was in repeated contact with the russian government at that time. look, this is from the post. "the talks were part of a series of contacts between flynn and the russian official which began before the november 8 election." heres the "times," "current and former american offi...

Now disappeared. if you recall this very controversial dossier which was published by buzzfeed news contained two main allegations -- one was that the russian government had allegedly collected damaging compromising personal information about donald trump that was of a salacious and personal nature. the other main allegation in that dossier was that the trump campaign colluded with the russian government while they interfered in our presidential election. cnn reports tonight intelligence officia...