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It says tonight. it was like the scene from that woody allen movement we had a reporter. >> we happen to have marcia mccloughan right there. coming up at top of the hour, cnns fareed zakaria digs deal. ed by vladimir putin use his power to elect president trump, the most powerful man in the world. ahead nine p.m. eastern and pacific. up next, steve king doubling down on his tweet that set off a firestorm. he said, quote you cant we build your civilization with someone elses babies. the fallout a...

>> so all of this, john, keeping with the russian narrative weve been hearing since a lot of these allegations started, saying whats going on in the u.s. is hysteria as dmitry peskov put it in another video, saying russia had nothing to do with hacking in the u.s. elections in november. >> may not be quite as simple as he suggests. frederik pleitgen, thank you so much. tonight on kn we have a documentary that explores the question of whether vladimir putin used his power to elect donald trump....

Amounts say two inches an hour for some places, the snowfall totals will add up quickly. tuesday morning, d.c. switching over to rain, getting more out of the snow. looks like warmer air is pushing into d.c. so your snowfall totals may be two to five. looking at maybe 3 1/2, 4 inches most likely scenario. you can see boston into snow by tuesday at lunchtime and pushing out by late tuesday. so wolf, this is going to cause travel to come to a screeching halt tomorrow, with thousands of flights bei...

What do you predict? another political football? >> i learned after last elect, not to make too many political predictions, but i think it has already become a political football. and that does not even take into aircraft count disagreement between republican party and democratic party, on the broader issue of healthcare reform. absolutely, already a political football and will drive conversation in washington. eric: to use a corner, metaphor, it is a political football, and hopefully it gets th...

Did vladimir putin use his power to elect donald trump? thats the question behind our new special report "the most powerful man in the world." i cant wait to see this. you interviewed dimitrii peskov. you ask him about the trump associates meeting with the russian ambassador sergei kisly kislyak. >> so what was it the russian ambassador sergei kislyak was talking to so many of donald trumps associates about? >> this is his job. he was talking about bilateral relations. he was talking about what ...

You know, jeff sessions certainly misled the senate, we dont really want to jump to conclusions that it was perjury, but he misled the senate, he made a big mistake. then he had to recuse himself. now two-thirds of people say we need a special prosecutor, independent counsel in the russia case. were not talking about jeff sessions anymore. but hes throwing us on to the scent because his tweet wasnt about attacking the cast of "hamilton" or meryl streep, which he often does to distract us. it was...

After the election the trump white house continues to deny any close connection between carter paige and their campaign. >> hes an individual who the president elect does not know and was put on notice months ago. >> reporter: while he was part of the foreign policy team he did not work directly with mr. trump and did not work on anything substantial relating to russia policy. cnn, washington. quite a confusing picture. the trump team did try to distance itself from carter paige months ago and...

In fact, misstating. does this, in effect, show that sessions is -- in his response, that he may have misstated something? is that reasonable? does it make it reasonable? because two on your aisle have done the same. >> if the russians launch a massive cyber attack to help nancy pelo nancy pelosi or chuck schumer become president, absolutely that would be a problem. the whole reason this is a problem is because the russians interfered with our election to elect donald trump as president and that...

It sufficient? >> it may have been necessary if there is a criminal investigation pending, which we still dont know. there is very clear regulation that says that if you work on a political campaign and that political campaign comes under investigation, you cant participate in the investigation. its cut and dried. so to the -- if there is a criminal investigation now or in the future, he cant participate in it. that means he has to recuse himself and he did. >> do you think he lied under oath? >...

>> the problem is the intelligence committee, you know, conducts its hearings in secret. they find facts in secret. by the way, thats what the fbi does, too. thats what the department of justice does and what a special counsel would do. you have to have a special counsel completely independent from not just jeff sessions but also from the deputy attorney general. it has to be walled off from the entire chain of command that can look at this and find if there are criminal charges that should be b...