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You know, evan, all of this is happening a day after the presidents first national security adviser, michael flynn, he revealed hes been cooperating with the mueller team a lot longer than previously known. what does it say to you? >> look, it does say that this is one reason why the mueller prosecutors have said that they dont think he deserves any prison time. they talked about more than 62 hours he has spent with the prosecutors. we dont know exactly what he has provided, but just in the last...

Between russia and 16 of his close associates before and during the 2016 campaign, he calls it peanut stuff. joining us now is righters white house correspondent, jeff mason, who conducted that interview with the president yesterday, and also cnn legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. we have the peanut stuff comment and the issue of impeachment. the i-word has been swirling around the white house for sometime, and theres a notion that is bugging him. did it seem to you that this was bothering him? is t...

Its akin to, you know, the trump family thinking. >> you talk about his resume. he was a conspiracy theorist. he did the lock her up thing. just because you ran an agency doesnt mean youre always with it. it doesnt mean you cant be arrogant. >> clearly not. you know, the presidents son-in-law thought that he could establish a back channel, which is a polite term for having private conversations that the united states of america cant hear. >> yeah. >> with the russian ambassador. >> its all so sh...

Peanut stuff. that is how the president is describing the multiple people who worked on his campaign and his transition who had contacts with russians. well discuss that next. when your craving strikes, you need your wing nut. ( ♪ ) no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut.

Outsmart -- >> that might be a good explanation for the guy driving the cab over here to cnn, but its not for somebody who ran the defense intelligence agency. i mean he should know that our eyes and ears, that is to say, the united states eyes and ears are on people like the russian ambassador. its akin to, you know, the trump family thinking that they could -- >> you dont think thats entitlement or arrogance? even with all of that, you talk about his résume. he was a conspiracy theorist. he d...

Show up and run it on television. fact-checking in realtime from one of his biggest nemesis besides hillary clinton and barack obama, that is. can fact-check his lies almost in realtime. she did it in realtime today. as chuck schumer said today, mr. president, elections have consequences. all those lies you have told at rallies and in interviews are coming home to roost. the chickens are coming home to roost. that would be a smart strategy for the democrats. facts first. a lot to get to tonight ...

And the stuff about me having a business deal, thats small peanuts. hes making a case to the american people because hes banking thats going to be the ultimate judge and jury here, not mule aellemueller. when he describes his behavior that way, is it helpful to his cause? >> i dont think its helpful. there are people who will believe whatever he says, but the more facts come out, the more people will begin pausing. when he says its only civil, he doesnt know what hes talking about. if the allega...

Ill take the mantle. well see what happens, if it actually comes to fruition. thank you all. and next, breaking news, president trump just now speaking to reuters in an interview, calling people who worked for him, who had contacts with russians, quote, peanut stuff. also saying the payments to women were not a campaign contribution. thats the felony issue. much more ahead. these headlines literally just crossing from this interview. and the scramble for trumps new chief of staff. one name r...

>> fighting cancer. >> very, very ill. this is not that case. he was not doing it out of a warm-hearted view of melania he was doing it -- this will have to be proven, but he was doing it to fool the american people so he would win the presidency. thats serious stuff. in fact, the framers of the constitution had that in mind, that very kind of thing when they said surely someone who corruptly gains the office of president cannot be allowed to retain that office. that was their prime example of s...

Given them tons of stuff from his two companies, rather than fight over the breadth of subpoenas. he went along with it is what hes saying. hes also saying when the stuff came out about strzok and mccabe and all that drama, you know that, jordan and all those guys and the right, nunez were trying to report, he says i never changed course. i could have played with that momentum and tried to pull back, said i never did any of that. interesting. lets bring in somebody who understands this much bett...