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Directly, as alexander was saying, contradictory to the attorney general in his sworn testimony that he did not know of anybody in the trump campaign communicating with russia at all. this is not the first time that his testimony has been called into question either. where does jeff sessions stand at this moment? >> i honestly dont know. what i do know is what you could have here is a series of second-level people who are picked off as betsy intimated for perjury or making false statements or so...

Sell us carpets, multiple times on trade. because he doesnt have the leverage. thats why trump is a chump. okay? he presents himself as mr. smart and mr. tough. hes actually a chump. trump is a chump because he doesnt know anything. >> i want to go to something in the column this week. we have seen the tragic deaths of four soldiers in combat in niger and but you have highlighted something that no one else is talking about in that incident and you say that niger highlights a much larger problem,...

But when you multiply it by the big numbers on these platforms, 2 billion people using facebook, 330 million people using twitter, all of a sudden they get a bit smaller. >> adam, you were at twitter up until this past december, is that right? >> yep. >> you were there when this was all going down. what did you know about this then? >> very little. i dont think anyone really connected a lot of the dots until after the election was over. certainly theres been concerns at all the companies about a...

They were paid for using rubles, leading to a humorous moment between senator al franken and the lawyer for facebook at the hearings last week. >> over the course of the hearings, we saw congress really seem distrustful, frustrated when it comes to big tech. watch this. >> american political ads and russian money, rubles. how could you not connect those two dots? >> i hear all your words, but i have more than a little bit of frustration that many of us on this committee have been raising this is...

Niger highlights a much larger problem, just how foolish, how flat-out dumb president trump is behaving. you connected dots for me that i havent considered. >> i did a documentary there last year for years of living dangerously and the whole problem of that region of africa, four things have come together. one is dramatic climate change. that region is heating up much faster than any other region. and so the desert is coming down. we have got huge population explosion going on there. the average...

>> i think two dots make a line, wolf. at a minimum its worthy of investigation in and of itself. he said that on its face is not true. >> you would agree that he perjuried himself? >> so im not going to sit as judge and jury because i think there is a legal element of intent here, but what im saying is he has done it not once or twice, but three or more occasions. in and of itself it is worthy of investigation. >> the president keeps saying your committee and the other committees investigating ...

Whether he traveled to russia. democrats want him to clarify his testimony. a former hillary clinton campaign staffer and former dnc advisor. from the couch, kevin jackson, executive director and fox news contributor as well. i put all of this together because the president has weighed in today and said you know what, its not that hes ruling it out. hes not ruling out whether he take another look at jeff sessions. >> i think it sessions short, i know zach and i disagree. we are chasing this whol...

We know carter page told sessions in passing. that was a revelation that came out today. in passing, carter page told attorney general sessions im going to russia. apparently, according to him, attorney general sessions didnt say anything. who knows if thats accurate. there areal dots lining up. and you said in the opening about, nine individuals involved with the trump campaign. five are very senior. kushner, manafort, donald jr. >> appreciate your expertise as always. ahead, bob muellers cat...

The justice department, you worked at justice, right? >> i did. >> whats your reaction? >> think we have a terrific criminal justice system in this country, the prosecutors in new york are rock stars, the fbi, ive worked with those guys and they know what theyre doing, theyre serious people. but, you know, there is a debate in this country about how to deal with terrorism. and whether its a law enforcement matter or intelligence matter. the truth is its a little bit of both. we have to be able t...

They grilled officials in letting russian trolls letting the ads stir up division among american voters. >> an electoral ads, paid for in rubles, were coming from russia. those are two data points. american political ads and russian money, rubles. how could you not connect those two dots? >> i want to bring in cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter to talk about this and want to give everybody a quick warning. we may have to dump out of our conversation to go...