Intense Push News Today

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. our top story, senior white house officials are pushing back against cnns exclusive reporting denying any wrongdoing and asking the foobi to speak o against reports of contacts good the trump campaign and russians. >> the administration confirms it spoke to the fooibl about those communications, but in an unprecedented move, press secretary sean spicer blo er bl cnn and other news organizations from an informal press briefing. for more, jim sciutto reports. >> re...

White house is pushing back hard on cnns exclusive reporting, denying any wrong doing when those, with the trump campaign and the white house asked the fbi to tamp down reports of contacts between the trump campaign and russian official, now to cnn chief national security correspondent, jim shuuto in washington. >> well, fred, in the midst of the white house criticism of the media o medias coverage of the story, the white house did admit it did communicate with the fbi about an ongoing investiga...

Reporting. >> between all the push back and the normal insults and the object fa skags, this essential fact. the white house confirms it did speak to the fbi about these communications and did ask for help knocking down stories describing those communications. and more broadly, the white house is not denied the existence of these communications between trump advisors and russians known to u.s. intelligence during the campaign as cnn reported last week. tonight the white house vehemently defendin...

We begin with the fbi story in russia. jim sciuto broke it for us last night. hes got more right now. jim, whats the latest? >> reporter: tonight the white house vehemently defending, denying reports that -- the administrations intense push back following cnns exclusive reporting of that request, senior administration officials insisting that it only asked for the denial after a top fbi official himself volunteered that the "new york times" story on the communications was inaccurate. i should no...