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We have some new reporting tonight on two big developments in the russia investigation. one involving the irs and one involving facebook. joining me now is cnn justice correspondent pamela brown and dylan briers cnn reporter on media and politics. pamela, to you first. you have this exclusive new information about the russia investigation. what are you learning? >> yeah, thats right, don. weve learned the irs is sharing information with investigators working with special counsel robert mueller. ...

Subpoena to share tax returns with another agency. the irs and the special counsels office declined to comment. >> dylan to you now. you have new information tonight about the political ads russians bought on facebook leading up to the election. what can you tell us about that? >> thats right. what we know is a little more about the content of the ads. obviously what happened weeks ago, facebook came to the senate and house intelligence committee and gave them just a very small sampling of what ...

To jail. >> laura coates you agree with that? >> there could be some finessing and massagic in a federal employee bargain or some sort or a combination. and frankly a prosecutor worth his or her salt would probably look for that particular negotiation and that massaging. because when you do that youre not only able to hook a big fish but also able to get the information to hook a larger one. or parallel in his gravitas in the investigation. there is room for the prosecutors and his team and of c...

Election and before mueller was appointed. the special counsels office, though, went ahead with the search on muellers home with only fbi agents care yaeg it out. and that is unusual for the irs to sit out a search on an investigation that centers on tax evasion, don. >> does this mean the irs now has access to tks returns? >> sources say if mueller office does have those returns, then deputy attorney general rosenstein would need to sign-off given the sensitivity 06 the manner. as for manafort ...

Robert muellers team getting information from the irs as they pursue this russian investigation. here to discuss philip mudd, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news, and we all know the sharing of information. what does that tell you about how expensive muellers investigation has become? >> theres a simple answer and a subtle answer. the simple answer is were they accepting money from people who might have also been involved years later in participating in supporting putting false info...

More moderate still having more power than these far right republicans because they are the swing votes that are needed for the republicans to get anything of the big chunks of their legislation passed. shorter term i think its raging against the machine. >> thank you all. fascinating conversation. i appreciate it. we have to remember, again, this is where those controversial son of a bitch comments happened in alabama. he thinks this is winning strategy for him. when we come back, more develo...

Records, mail data are that kind of thing. but the irs is restricted what information it can share, and it would normally need a grand jury subpoena to share other returns with an agency. >> dylan to you now. you have new information tonight about the political ads russians bought on facebook leading up to the election. what can you tell us about that? >> thats right. what we know is a little more about the concept of the ads. obviously what happened weeks ago, facebook came to the senate and ho...

Its confirmed and theyll probably release the information. >> whos the journalist? >> im not going to say. >> i asked him on what grounds. he said it was a journalist and therefore his conversations with the journalist were off record. since we dont know who the journalist is or what his credentials are what else this person is, its hard to judge. but, look, that was the key question. that was the reason stone was there. the reason he was of interest to investigators is because he appeared to ha...

Talk? >> well, especially if youre pushing out on periphery of people who dont have a core involvement in the investigation, whats their lawyer going to tell them? you want to go to jail for donald trump if you have information about what happened in the campaign and you werent a core participate in that campaign? if im sitting on the margins on that, im saying im going to dime somebody out and im not going to jail. >> laura coates you agree with that? >> its not necessarily a binary choice that...

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