Knowing about contacts with russian officials. Flynns testimony to the contrary could be politically fatal to trump. And theres no doubt that the russia investigation was on the president s mind this week. He sent this tweet late last night. Since the first day i took office, all you hear is the phony democrat excuse for losing the election. Russia, russia, russia. Despite this, i have the economy booming and i have possibly done more than any tenmonth president. Make America Great again, in all caps. Lets get to our reporters and guests from the Washington Post, White House Bureau chief, phil rucker, republican strategist, Steve Schmidt. Former federal prosecutor, mario ren regnati, and zerlina maxwell, formerly with the clinton campaign, now the director for progressive programming with sirius xm, and james pindel, thank you all for being with us. Phil rucker, let me start with you. I spoke to a trump confidant not on the white house staff. But someone in close contact with the white