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Headquarters in new yor and we start with breaking news. crisis mode. the white house now scrambling to manage the multiple investigations into russian collusion. we just learned president trumps personal lawyer has been asked for information in congressional russia probes thats in addition to the fbis focus on son-in-law jared kushner. also this afternoon, staff shakeup, the white house communications director is out. that may be just the beginning. reports this afternoon that a massive staff o...

Come back into the fold in the white house. but could he take on a broader role in terms of counseling the president, advising him outside of the white house? thats a possibility, steph. thats one of the things theyre eyeing moving forward. >> i want to share a bit more on the tension. it is not just tension between corey lewandowski and the -- some of the trump family members, its about what this means. bringing back a corey lewandowski and a david bossie, if they were to join the administratio...

Conversations and stories that come up the pike that we have no idea about. >> kristen, i know you and i talked about this in the last hour, but there are possibly changes coming to the white house press office amid some of these controversies. do we know that thats sort of imminent? >> reporter: we dont. and, remember, ali, we continue to sort of have these discussions about possible shake-ups every couple of weeks. we know the president is considering potentially expanding some roles, bringing...

We know the president is looking to bring more people into the fold in the war room, more top staffers to help deal with this growing crisis defense russia. again, ali, this speaks to whether the president is going to, in any way at any point, decide to diminish the role of jared kushner. at this point he hasnt. will this headline, will this story line change things? it remains an open question, but at least for now, again, publicly hes standing by him, ali. >> glen, when people think about this...

Until he comes to a decision. were hearing this notion of having the deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders potentially play a more visible role in some of the briefings, having some of those other top officials, folks like h.r. mcmaster, gary cohen come to the briefing room more frequently. we saw that during the trip and have been seeing it in recent weeks. the white house thinks that has been an effective way to get out their messages. theres also, ali, the possibility youll see fewer ...

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The country or at war with the rest of the country? >> thats a fantastic question e. you know, i wouldnt have had a clearer answer but after seeing steve bannons face when he was in saudi arabia last week surrounded -- by the way, saudi arabia -- i mean, the saudis are the largest exports of radical islam. so he was kind of surrounded by the person pification of his wot nightmare. initially i would think he didnt have any idea about the muslims but i do think he is terrified. this moment right n...

Being sidelined and now that trump is doing the shake-up, hes sort of back in the fold and back in the mix. i think what bannon needs to understand is were done with the spinning and the misdirection and misinformation. this is a real investigation and we need facts not more -- >> one of the things we were going to talk about is there is this weird way in which the saudis in a way mirror the world view of bannon and trump, particularly in the way that they view women and view melania as sort of ...

Muriels investigation will lead. jared kushner said he is happy to testify before the senate. he said he is happy to participate in this investigation. so im not sure that there is much of a story here other than its a distraction from everything else that is going on. charles mentioned earlier kind of the nonbinding nature of the paris climate protocols which is important because this is a decision that apparently the president will make when it comes back. i think really it is the only the non...

My goodness, this is just nothing short of breathtaking. >> im going to go around the room and coming back to malcolm quickly on this other piece. said if theres two, its a ring. lets go to three, carter page. carter page in this story undersold because so many other things coming out of the fire hose, this didnt make to be a big headline. "washington post" thursday, multiple people familiar with campaigns, carter page brought into the fold at a time of desperation with the trump team as trump w...