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Its a dark moment in american history today. >> one senator says it has plunged the country into, and i quote here, a full-fledged constitutional crisis. >> it fueled calls for a special prosecutor and raised questions about how the firing was handled. >> comey was even in the city. he was all the way across the country. >> he saw it on the televisioning. > he was talking to fbi agents in los angeles and he looks up and sees hes fired from television? >> that is what we were told. >> that just g...

Just over 100 days in office president trump scored a much-needed win after a house vote on health care. >> only being a politician for a short period of time, how am i doing? im president. im president. >> but days later, he made a decision that potentially put his presidency in legal and political jeopardy. >> we have major breaking news. >> moments ago, breaking news that no one saw coming today. >> i remember standing in the newsroom and somebody gasped. >> a bombshell at the white house, ja...

Two of the most prominent have been charged with crimes. michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. paul manafort pleaded not guilty to, among other charges, money laundering. youll hear more about them later in this story, but one lesser known player is also in the hot seat. donald trump first mentioned him at a meeting with "washington post" editors in 2016. >> george papadopoulos, an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> excellent guy george papado has paded guilty ng tto lyithe...

Fact that a trump foreign policy official is bragging that he knows early that russia has said they have these e-mails and they want to use them and to release them to benefit republicans in the election. >> when the e-mails began to leak, australia told the u.s. what the young campaign aide had said and that apparently played a role in the decision to open an fbi investigation. papadopoulos is now cooperating with the mueller team. when we come back -- >> the president thinks this is a witch hu...

Attorney general. >> he just starred two weeks ago. would the white house have told him to do that? >> the memo was critical of comeys handling of hillary clintons e-mails before the election. >> why now are you concerned about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation when as again donald trump was praising it from the campaign trail. >> i think youre looking at the wrong set of facts here. youre going back to the campaign. this man is the president of the united states. he acted decisively toda...

>> is it true that mr. manafort owed you millions of dollars? >> at the heart of the trump-russia mystery. >> i have nothing to do with russia. >> but there were secret contacts. >> breaking and stunning news. release of an e-mail chain. >> it came from russians. >> some denials that defy facts. >> i dont know what youre talking about. its disgusting, so phony. >> i didnt take any money from russia, if thats what youre asking. >> a shocking dismissal. >> the president of the united states has te...