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They reserve the right to do so, to redact documents, et, but at this point, theyve given us no indication that they intend to invoke executive privilege, regarding the mueller investigation. >> and i want to get to executive privilege in just one second. but evan, to you, on the mueller investigation, is it -- where -- what have you -- obviously, theyre very tight lipped, understandably so on their list of all who has been interviewed. does it surprise you jeff session has not been interviewed?...

Breaking news, a cnn exclusive. were learning the special counsel in the russia probe met with a former british spy who put together the controversial dossier about russia collusion. perez broke the story along with -- and evan joins me right now. evan, what are we learning? >> reporter: well, don, investigators working with special counsel robert mueller met this past summer with christopher steele. steele as you remember is the former mi6 officer who put together a series of memos detailing ru...

Last thing before we go here on a thursday night is a woman we dont hear much from and dont hear much about. evan that trump, donald trumps first of his three wives granted an interview to cbs sunday morning. she was asked about her relationship with her ex-husband, donald trump. >> is he still a big part of your life? >> yeah, he is. he is. >> in what way? >> well, we speak to each other. >> how often? >> maybe once a week. >> he asks for your advice. >> and hes still asking me for advice, yes....

National intelligence discussed including part of the dossier on the official document about russian meddling. didnt want to include it because didnt want to explain what parts they had been able to corroborate and revealing sources. then fbi director james comey was worried if the fbi presented this alone the president-elect would view the information as attempt to hold leverage over him. as he briefed trump, thats exactly what happened. trump said he thought comey was trying to use the dossier...

Diplomacy. dont know what storm he is talking about but as you heard him say, well find out. >> one thing we know, right now the american people would like some calm from their president, not calm before a storm. also breaking, special counsel robert muellers russia investigation, two sources telling cnn that russia ambassadors met over the summer with that crucial spy, controversial dossier about the trump campaign collusion in the -- insisted is work of fiction. evan broke the story with col...

Tonight another cnn exclusive in the russian investigation. the counsel into the trumps investigation, paul manafort. evan joins us now. what have you learned? >> anderson, special counsel robert mueller investigator are reaching to 2006 on crimes of paul manafort. its one of the pressures muellers team is putting on the trump campaign chairman and muellers team going well beyond the russian meddling during the campaign. as we reported yesterday, manafort has been the subject of an fbi investiga...

Investigation? >> it points to the fact that prosecutors and lawyers working for him are pushing forward on manafort. its not clear what the plan here is, but as best as we can determine they do plan to charge him. this is something "the new york times" reported last night, and according to our own sources, thats accurate. the picture that is emerging they are going to use financial issues, tax issues and possible financial crimes to put pressure on him and perhaps use that to flip him. whether ...

And had the details about why someone was listening to someone so close to the president. >> sources tell us that the fbi got perms from the secretive surveillance court to monday tar paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman before and after the election of the this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance on a high-ranking campaign official. and of course, manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling investigation. were told that there are intercepted communicati...

About what was said. we were told the fbi does have communications between russian operatives relaying communications involving manafort himself. none of this amounted to what officials tell us is considered a smoking gun in the investigation, and theres a lot more work being done to determine if theres a criminal violation here. manafort has previously denied he knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operatives during the election, and hes also denied helping russia undermine u.s. int...

Are. and until republicans of good faith and who believe in this country and what this country stands for, at least what it should stand for, until they say something about him, they are complicit in what hes doing. >> and let me go to a evan, lets give you a chance to get this here. donald trump at the same time that he is throwing back out this red meat on bracerace, he texted his supporters yesterday saying djt, we will build a wall all caps and stop illegal immigration to keep us safe. dems ...