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Congress and the executive branch. hes claiming to have information that he didnt get from his staff and if he didnt receive it from his staff he must have received from sources in the executive branch, which by the way the president and his administration runs. >> theyre throwing cold water on it as manu reported. >> it doesnt make sense, frankly i think its a political stunt designed to distract americans on who should be focused on the fact that we have a investigation of the presidents commu...

And when that noise bomb that comes back at you online is not just loud, its outrageous, profane, stuffed with unexpected bits of foreign, relentless, the number of posts that appear back at you and how long they keep going for, in that circumstance you think twice about trying to raise that subject online ever again, right? it makes discussion of the things you care about online, if you are a hillary clinton supporter it makes discussion of hillary clinton online feel futile. it feels ugly and ...

That? we saw with general flynn last week hes now registered as a foreign agent. conceivably he should have done that on his sf-86. my sense listening to it is the focus of the investigation will be on the binary question that relates to sf-86s and foreign contact and foreign disclosure. it is such an important one. i cant stress enough that just because you had contact with a foreign -- even foreign intelligence officer, that may not be illegal, not sdloegs to the u.s. government with top secre...

So its very hard to see how theyll work together. i know other people have said, shes sort of giving him lessons and hell come away subdued and think about all this. well, we saw in his conference with president obama and weve seen with others, he comes away like that initially, and then he starts tweeting extraordinary things that cause all kinds of problems. i think it will be very hard to make these two people work together effectively. >> chris, thank you. lets go to kasie hunt whos on capit...

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About what is known or what is happened or didnt happen about surveillance? >> part of the problem is if its an ongoing investigation, something could change next week. that changes what he says tomorrow. he has to be narrow in that you dont want to tell a foreign -- give it a rest. let this man do the investigation. well see if it was fair or not. there was so many shots fired at him. everyone has an agenda. >> we saw last week, he came out

A terrorist organization. so i think the level of investigation thats needed is manifest. >> on the azerbaijan article which i read, its fascinating, because the trump organization was saying initially, we didnt really, this was one of those licensing deals. they just put the name, the trump name. >> its nonsense. >> as you discovered, thats not the case. >> thats the trump organization. and by the way, ivanka trump went to look into this deal. >> it wasnt like the landscaping. >> you know, you ...

Russia watch this. im not creating a store. >> can you say whether youre aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contact during the course of the direction. >> i told you flynn was doling thats one person. >> during the election. >> nobody that i know of. >> how many times do i are to answer this question. >> russia is a rues. i have nothing do with russia. >> theres a conflict between your reporting and him saying its a rues. >> we pick up a lot of stories on news max if there was an of...

Campaign. >> reporter: one source told cnn nobody has seen the president that upset. while others said in a meeting laced with expletives, trump accused his staff of fumbling the sessions situation, creating a mini disaster. tv cameras capture add animated office in the oval office involving the senior staff, including steve bannon, ivanka trump and jared kushner and reince priebus. >> there was nothing wrong with talking with the foreign, the russian ambassador about the current sanctions that ...

After the presidents widely praised speech to congress, sources say he was furious to see questions about his teams ties to russia again stealing headlines particularly galling was attorney general jeff sessions decision to step back from an investigation into the matter. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: one source told cnn nobody has seen the president that upset, while others said in a meeting laced with expletives, trump accused his staff...