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Happened to this journalist. >> this push on capitol hill certainly puts the trump administration and its foreign policy in an awkward spot. some clearly want the president and his forest policy team to flexor muscle at the saudi government and wanted to speak forcefully on this issue. >> i think the united states on a strong bipartisan basis just send a very clear message to the admin intrusion into the saudi kingdom that the kidnapping and torture and murder of an american resident journalist,...

Robert mueller. mj lee and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rogers. evan, to you first. covering the case from the beginning. michael cohen in court facing prison time. length of that prison sentence to be determined any minute. essentially saying, i have done wrong but and the but being that most of what i have done wrong was at the direction of donald trump. the businessman, then the candidate, now the president. >> look, this is what you call singing for your supper. it is clear that micha...

I was briefing the president about this project. so all of that really concerned investigators at the time. now we know the truth. and we know why that is. >> shimon and evan, guys, thanks very much. good reporting. as usual, lets get some more on all of this. republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois joining us, a member of the foreign affairs committee. thanks for joining us. and as you know, these filings show that federal prosecutors are accusing president trump directly of directing...

Wing. theres also paul manafort, the former campaign chairman accused of lying to the special counsel five different times. of course, as you know, manafort denies that. but team mueller says, no, no, that they have proof and cnn has confirmed that at least 16 people, 16, have had some sort of contact with the russians, despite the president saying this last year. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. >> 16. cnns senior justice corresp...

>> its a player looking occurred that evan spelled out and all of the figures who could be under scrutiny. congress has the discretion. thats important that we heard him say. they may be impeachable, about that doesnt mean they will move to impeach. if the voters are not with the impeachers and the president does not have republicans who super against him if that that moves in that dleakz there would be a will on the part of democrats who have a memory back to bill clinton that they may or may n...

These people who were then private citizens -- >> testimony to congress that it was shared with the white house. the question is, he does not tell us. was there back and forth, input? he doesnt tell us that. mueller leaving us crumbs to be determined on the building blocks. >> to me, as i read all these documents, this one point of whether or not the white house helped cohen construct this false narrative to congress is the most frightening thing for them from a legal jeopardy standpoint. >> wel...

In this environment where the trump administration is going to be brought in for hearings left and right and there are going to be investigations into improprieties, it makes sense that nick ayers might say this is not the position for me as a 36-year-old who although has cut his teeth in washington and is a savvy political consultant, this is for lack of a better word or another phrase, is being appointed chief dog catcher. its not an enviable role. >> so speaking of that, evan, what kind of qu...

Being chief of staff would be the pin -- pinnacle of ones can rear, he would rather focus his attention wreelsewhere and go b home to georgia. let me bring in alaina beverly with me here onset. evan, a republican strategist. bet he get your reactions to the news. the fact that the president and nick ayers couldnt come to an agreement as jeff was saying, ill pick up on that last point, hed think that somebody, a young political operative, very d.c. savvy, will become a chief of staff at a young...

Staff will have to be in that position for over a year in order to make sure he stays longer than the round of chiefs of staff that made it through the obama administration. lets think about the mass exodus that we have seen from the trump administration at senior levels, whether it is secretary of state. we now had two of those. weve had two hhs secretaries. weve had two epa secretaries. weve had three national security advisers. i think that he might be premature or just off when he tries to p...

Lot about this person, but this person apparently is someone who is close to the kremlin and we know that paul manafort -- that we know -- we know that michael cohen had been working on this moscow project. this appears to be a separate project, erin. >> and we understand, you know, from looking at this, evan, to your point, it would seem significant that we are now entering a new, it seems, a new russian into this who was close to putin. >> reporter: right. exactly. thats whats interesting abou...