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But that wasnt the only thing in that dossier and we have had two reports, one from cnn and one from the "new yorker" saying that u.s. intelligence and law enforcement sources have been finding that the dossier kind of holds up otherwise. theyve been able to corroborate the less salacious stuff in the dossier, the stuff about the trump campaign and people in trumps orbit. "u.s. investigators say they have corroborated details in a dossier compiled by a british intelligence agent. intercepts conf...

Night. heres all weve been offered right now to come into the question of what was in the elephant -- what was elephant in the room last night? lets watch. >> america is willing to find new friends and to forge new partnerships where shared interests align. we want harmony and stability, not war and conflict. we want peace wherever peace can be found. america is friends today with former enemies. >> wow. nbc news yesterday confirmed that the fbi reached an agreement to pay christopher steele, th...

Oligarch. but in our reporting has always been that these russians were not necessarily russian intelligence officials as "the new york times" originally asserted and scaled back kind of in this story. but merely russians, some with ties to the kremlin and some rur russians official. in the russian state these days a lot of people have ties to the intelligence apparatus. some official, some unofficial. but those questions are the crucial ones and its not clear that they ever going to get to the ...

People believe theyre coming from former obama appointees who are motivated to make trump look as bad as possible. >> then again you have the reports with repeated contacts and reports all over the place. >> but -- >> its not intelligence agent, its russians and their denying wrongdoing. >> those reports also said, in the 18th paragraph, that there was nothing about these contacts that was necessarily wrong. there is nothing out of the ordinary about these contacts and theyre not even sure what ...

Communications, lets say for instance in russia, spy agencies work much the same around the world. can have people planted in think tankz, business delegations, you name it. could have a friendly cocktail conversation and maybe never know talking to somebody who is intelligence agent. but if you have repeated contact, does raise questions. what were the contacts about? thats as everyone has been saying, the context. what were they talking about? campaign, business ventures, political consulting ...

Whether flynn was doing exactly whether the president wanted, whether with the presidents knowledge, with his approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically no. >> no, absolutely not. no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still the fbi is now leading multiple investigations of current and former trump advisers and ties to russia, including a yearlong investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and his alleged connections to pro-putin figures...

Russians? >> reporter: and did any direction go as high as the president, himself? >> it certainly begs the question of whether flynn was doing exactly what the president wanted. whether he was doing it with the presidents knowledge, with the presidents approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically, no. >> no, absolutely not, no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still, the fbi is now leading multiple investigations of current and former trump advisers and t...

Himself? if he didnt do it by himself, who directed him to engage the russians? >> reporter: and did any direction go as high as the president, himself? >> it certainly begs the question of whether flynn was doing exactly what the president wanted. whether he was doing it with the presidents knowledge, with the presidents approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically, no. >> no, absolutely not, no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still, the fbi is now lead...

This is something you will only see on cnn. official confirmation this weekend of some of the contents of that secret stack of documents that first became known back in january. heres chief national security correspondent jim sciutto with details. >> the first time u.s. investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former british intelligence agent. cnn was the first to report last month that then president-elect donald trump and ...

May cause low blood sugar. its time to turn things around. lower your blood sugar with invokana®. imagine loving your numbers. theres only one invokana®. ask your doctor about it by name. . welcome back now to a cnn exclusive. new information about the ongoing investigation into allegation raised in a collection of memos created by a former british intelligence agent for political opponents of then candidate donald trump. here is cnn chief national security correspondent jim shudo. >> fred, ...