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To me, that seems huge. can you give a sense of the size of the threat? >> reporter: well, there is another estimated, an unclassified estimate from the u.s. military that puts the invasion, potential invasion, on an even larger scale involving roughly 175,000 russian troops. there are european outlets, newspapers, think tanks that have put out different maps where they show a multiprong invasion with troops coming in from the north. troops coming from the east. naval invasion coming along ukrai...

Various means we have, but right now, you know, the investigation is, i think, close to being completed, and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> gloria, this isnt speculation. hes been fully briefed. >> right. >> he says on the status of the mueller probe and says its close to being completed. what do you think? >> in that small statement, hes told us more than we have ever known from mueller, from the special counsels office. i think he got himself in...

One-offs than we had understood them to be. theres another story i want to get your reaction to. thats how this white house is preparing for the oncoming legal onslaught. they are saying that the president isnt prepared for the gathering legal storm. he tweeted yesterday, four of the five deputies are out of. there you have rudolph giuliani running things, who is not, whatever you think of him, a top flight practiced like white collar defense attorney. do you think they are underprepared based o...

>> if it was more than individual payments, a dine of transfer everything you have, that might have been a bigger deal involving more people, a larger undertaking than the one-offs than we had understood them to be. theres another story i want to get your reaction to. thats how this white house is preparing for the oncoming legal onslaught. they are saying that the president isnt prepared for the gathering legal storm. he tweeted yesterday, four of the five deputies are out of. there you have ru...

I got a text message from that same member who said this is beginning to not end well. this is a problem for trump and the white house, and also republicans as we start to move forward to the midterm elections next november. >> and steve, can i get your take? your take on all of this? just whats your read today? >> number one, with regard to paul manafort it was all business related. >> okay. >> theres absolutely no evidence of any collusion with regard to russia and the trump campaign in the ma...

What about obama? >> an indictment has been handed down and someone pleaded guilty to false statements. i understand. i hold multiple thoughts in my head at once, but its valid to be having this conversation. >> so lets talk about facts and lets not talk about fantasy or speculation. fact number one, no collusion with the manafort indictment and no collusion with the guilty plea of papadopoulos and fact number three, no collusion at all yet. if you read the opening statement of that indictment t...

Though? i mean, what he lays out while he was an adviser to the campaign, he was working with -- speaking with someone who promised dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails that would come from russian officials? >> well you know what, when people are in trouble they will say anything to get out of it. ive had 38 years in law enforcement and ive learned learned that. >> you dont believe this? >> what i believe, all right, is that what he did was lie, that he could have possibl...

That russia has done these things. so we now know that this isnt speculation. this is the real world. and the two intelligence services participated, and that the only way that could happen was either at the request of or the approval of president putin. so it makes it very important for the administration to sit down with president putin at some point and effect an agreement where the stops. and it should stop on behalf of all other nations. nations should not be doing this to each other. becau...

Or not we can do that and she would like to do that. >> tom foreman is "outfront" in washington, and tom, you know, this isnt speculation, this is it. ivanka trump is going to be working in the white house. >> this will be an absolute sensation in this town if this couple is here going to restaurants, hanging out, doing things but its not clear really what shes going to do. even as hes detailing it there, as he has so many times as the president-elect, we dont have many specifics here, erin. we ...

So the risk with being able to intercept the signal and then take over control from someone other than air traffic existed and werent able to mitigate that well. >> should we not wait until the flight data recorder is found before we jump to conclusions about what happened in the cockpit? >> good question. but, you know, i think at this point from what we know from the cockpit voice recorder, were kind of reversing the normal accident piece together process. so this is half of the puzzle. the co...