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Has charged those officials with conspiring to obtain a foreign contribution in connection with an election here in the united states. so what will that evidence be? i would like the spend the next minute walking through the evidence with you. you will hear that the russians had someone at the top, a man named paul manafort. co-chair of the campaign who was trading influence with a russian oligarch. you will hear the testimony of a man named george papadopoulos who is cooperating with the united...

White house revealed the clovis nomination was withdrawn. >> yeah. >> i will still be here tomorrow night. >> good. >> i will definitely be here tomorrow night. so viewers of the hour of television of course knew this on tuesday. america found out today that, of course, sam clovis will not be having a confirmation hearing to answer questions about the dealings with the special prosecutor. >> the sam clovis story, something about the fact he is a talk radio show host from iowa and makes you think...

Dur ra derail one of the nominees, and we know clovis has been talking to the special counsel. this is a development just into cnn. joe johns has more for us. what are you learn? >> reporter: well, he is a former campaign official for trump. now he is a nominee to be the top scientists at usda, the department of agriculture. a white house source familiar with the situation tells several of my colleagues at cnn that he is in danger, his nomination is in danger, that either he may have to with dra...

Them keep ukraine, its pretty much theirs anyway, he just went pack to being back to being a radio talk show host in 2014. he billed himself as being an expert on soviet military operations. his name was sam clovis. he lost that senate primary in 2014. in 2015 he started to run rick perrys iowa campaign. that ended up being a short job. in 2016 he ended up joining the donald trump for president campaign. sam clovis became the national co-chair of the trump for president campaign, became the top ...

Terms of their release. then, of course, theres the george papadopoulos guilty plea. that is packing the most punch here in washington. papadopoulos is called a pro active cooperator with prosecutors meaning he has been assisting them with the wide-ranging russia investigation. papadopoulos has admitted to russian contact after he became a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, and the fact that he tried to set up meetings with russian officials and members of the campaign team. we saw th...

Indictment of a russian spy ring that was discovered operating out of new york city russian bank branch. sam clovis is credited with bringing carter page on to the trump campaign and also credited with bringing on to the campaign george papadopoulos, who has now become quite famous for lying with the fbi about his contacts with russia during the trump campaign. in the plea agreement revealed by a judge on money, it was apparently sam clovis who was george papadopouloss supervisor who told him he...

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Nomination, now coming from the press secretary sarah sanders. the significant is, he was up for the job as the top scientist at the u.s. department of agriculture. there were questions about his qualifications for the job but more importantly i think he had connections to george papadopolous, who is the one person who has actually pleaded guilty so far in the russian investigation. he pleaded false statements after an interview with the fbi. and clovis had a connection to papadopolous. apparent...

Voluntarily provided to the special counsel by the campaign. and that is what led to the process hand place we are in right now. was the campaign fully cooperating in that. what papadopoulos did was lie and thats on him and not on the campaign and we cant speak for that. >> lets get more clarity from that. so jeremy, we now know that sam clovis attorney has just responded. what has he or she said? >> thats right. what we heard sarah huckabee sanders talking about sam clovis saying she doesnt bel...

Announcement the president is going to be making in the rose garden this afternoon. so expect a very big rollout, andrea. >> and kasie, another confirmation we have today is that sam clovis, who was the nominee for a top science position which he was arguably not qualified not being a scientist in the ag department, is not going to be up for a hearing. that nomination withdrawn. hes been under quite a shadow because weve reported, kim delanian of our team, reported he is the unnamed supervisor w...