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Decided whether hell cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee. I know its a lot, but well explain it all. Lets get right to mark preston, Gloria Borger and jim sciutto. There is a lot. A lot of names there. A lot of different nuances and different story lines going on there, but it all relates to russia, jim. President trump is back in washington now. The russia probe is getting bigger and bigger. Cnn is learning the House Intelligence Committee now wants information from former white hou...

Leadership and the house russ investigation, the expectation was that things would go more smoothly in the senate. But we are learning tonight that the Senate Committee doesnt have a single fulltime staffer assigned to the russia inquiry. According to two new reports democrats on the committee are demanding immediate changes. All this as donald trump nears the 100day mark with some of the lowest approval numbers ever recorded at this point in a presidency. Lets bring in tonights panel, john hile...

Is twitter his refuge . As his mood grows more sour. We want to welcome you in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight. The white house is refusing to confirm or deny reports that Jared Kushner tried to establish a secret line of communication with the russians during the transition. Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefing reporters for the first time in two weeks. Since we learned that president s soninl...

Administration currently has were sessions fault. Theres a New York Times report just out tonight that says james comey told attorney general sessions that he, comey, didnt want to be left alone with donald trump. And just tonight, a story from the Washington Post saying the president s brandnew director of National Intelligence, former longtime Indiana Republican senator dan coats, was approached by the president to try to make comeys russia investigation go away. The intelligence director, coa...

Coats said he did not want to discuss any of his plooift discussions with the president. If he doesnt discuss and reveal the details, would you be okay with that . No. That would be wholly inadequate. Reporter why is that . We need to understand what the president d here and whether he tried to intervene in an investigation. Reporter senator, do you feel like your republican colleagues are questioning or prepared to question the Witnesses Today and tomorrow, jim comey in good faith . Do you thin...

Ruhle. Guess what weve got . Breaking news. President trump naming his new fbi director just one day before his old one is set to testify. While there are new revelations that President Trump reportedly asked his director of National Intelligence to intervene and get james comey to back off the russia probe. What the intelligence head is testifying this morning. And never leave me alone. James comey reportedly telling attorney general Jeff Sessions, keep me away from trump. Plus new details on w...

One hour from now step into the hot seat to kick off two days of block buster testimony. In 24 hours former fbi director james comey is expected to dispute President Trumps claims he was told he was not under investigation, did not tell him that once, let alone three times. I wish him luck, those words from President Trump as he fired the man expected to bear details of his private conversations with the president. It could be the most consequencial congressional testimony since watergate. Befor...

National secrets he is going to be willing to compensate on any of this. He was reluctant to say anything damaging the last time he testified in an open hearing. A spokesman for coats released this statement in fact quote director coats does not discuss his ivate conversations with the president. However he has never felt pressured by the president or anyone else in the administration to influence any Intelligence Matters or ongoing investigations. The big event now looming even larger is that o...

Him to say on the record that hes seen no evidence of collusion so far. Democrats would like him to say theres at least an open investigation on these other points and that there was no wiretapping. Sometimes it is a bipartisan commission. The Intelligence Committee is supposed to be more bipartisan than most. We see the tensions cracking there. The biggest question is how far is director comey willing to do in public. One of the things we should not forget is the underlying animosity that remai...

It from happening again. I cant talk about the details of the intelligence, but we have, the Intelligence Community, have said that this election was meddled with by the russians, in a way that is frankly not particularly original. Theyve been doing this for an awfully long time and we are decades into the russians trying to undermine american democracy. In some ways, theres no news, but it certainly puts a heightened emphasis on our ability to figure out how to stop them. The news was actually ...