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Strong bipartisan message. he could order all staff to fully cooperate, testify, publicly, and to bring any information to the special counsel. he could order a full separation of the white house staff, from any response to this issue, that isnt his response. im concerned about white house staff doing response work for people that dont work in the government. he could acknowledge meddling and intel agencies to the white house for the briefing. and use that information to preisnpr present a task ...

As we have been reporting, the newest figure in the trump tower russian meeting, russian-american lobbyist, jim sciuto has more on him. >> june 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr., jared kushner, and paul manafort, included more beyond natalia veselnitskaya, a source familiar with the circumstances tells cnn. russian-american lobbyist, told several media outlets he was also in the meeting. he told reporters for "the new york times" and "washington post" he is a veteran of the sovie...

Then the soviet union. emgreat he emgreated. as the a u.s. citizen he can be subpoenaed under law to testify before the investigating committees. >> interesting. jim, thank you. well, up next, cnn special report, the first son, the life of donald trump jr. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, ive taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got em. ahh. wait a minute. ...

>> i cant speak to this specific situation. >> jim sciuto joins us, despite all these different topics, this was actually learning about russian interference in the u.s. election. >> reporter: general clapper confirmed this before that russian hackers targeted both republican and democratic party officials, but only leaked on the democrats. looking forward, agreement that russians will, they believe attack again and attack both parties, oddly we did not hear much about what to do about that in t...

Learning now that hes president. >> reporter: one of the most striking reversals on nato, after he had the meeting with the nato secretary general in washington this week, does that increase the division with russia going forward? >> reporter: i think it does. i think it puts russia on notice, i also think, jim, if the president is looking to bring, you know, the wrath of the u.s. government to isis, as we saw this week with the detonation of that mother of all bombs in afghanistan, he is going ...

China doesnt take care of it, well take care of it ourselves, when you have that combination does north korea read him with trepidation, are you concerned that if not conflict, a misunderstanding that could lead to conflict? >> i think thats what we were just talking about, hes there to make sure hiss regime continues to exist. and anyone who threatens him overtly will cause him to dig in more. im concerned about this and the bluntness and brashness of mr. trump without a strategy and the things...

Hu hunt. >> hes basically daring the congress to give him immunity. should we be giving him immunity,? no, we dont want the story to come out. >> jim sciuto, stay was. joining us on our panel is mike dorian, julian kyam and our own julian borger. let me just clear up a few things with you, this whole thing about susan rice, youre being told by people close to her and other i guess former intelligence officials that youre talking to, this is not completely unusual for a national security advisor ...

>> its not clear, its depends on how many people knew, right? i think we should be aware of where intelligence is being politicized, theres no question, and frankly you can argue about both sides and leaks are not new in washington, we have seen that many times before in multiple administrations, and the fact is that the argument from the trump administration is that there were leaks in the obama administration, of course there are some leaks that are due to the trump administration. its sadly t...

How many people unmaskin unmasking. >> here again, stepping back from the specifics and this is something that intelligence officials who have served the administration, it is a very specific process, theres only about 20 people in the national security agency that has the ability to approve the unmasking and then the process is to have that information go back solely to the requester. >> so very few people. and the storys literally moving as were talking. jim sciuto is reporting that both susan...

>> there is no way to know, only donald trump knows that. but as you mentioned, this is someone who consumes an amazing amount of news every single day. i think its probably more likely that he has heard about it and they dont know what they want to say about it. this is someone who was an early supporter of donald trump, very loyal and was behind him when people didnt believe in him and i dont think trump is eager to be throwing him overboard. >> you certainly with michael flynn, during your ti...