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President, i woulded vise -- advise him not to say anything about this. but certainly i think hes trying to engage in misdirection or trying to obfuscate and trying to draw attention away from this. but look, what we have here is, you know, in terms of the papadopoulos charging document, you have somebody who has agreed to cooperate with robert mueller, somebody who has agreed to testify, agreed to, you know, potentially he has recorded conversations. you know, he is -- if you look at that docum...

Meanwhile, fallout continues from the revelation that george paup done husband, foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his own efforts to connect the campaign to senior russian officials. today the presidents nominee for department of agriculture sam clovis withdrew his name from consideration after those same court filings revealed it was clovis who was the supervisor who encouraged papadopolous him to make contact. "the washington post" reported ...

Nomination was withdrawn.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 that like maybe this is kind of...

Meeting with donald trump. it should be somebody low level in the campaign so as to not send any signal. he reached out to a foreign contract saying a meeting has been approved from our side, and days later wikileaks released these e-mails, and trump made these remarks. >> i hope you are able to find the 33,000 e-mails that are missing. >>. >> clovis lawyer told "the posts" he opposed the trip and was being polite. >> theres no evidence trump

>> reporter: the following month a trump campaign supervisor, identified by the washington post as former trump campaign sam clovis saying i would encourage you and another foreign policy adviser to make the trip if it is feasible, telling the post he actually opposed the trip and was just being polite. >> there is no evidence that mr. manafort or the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. >> reporter: likely contributing to the charges brought against both manafort and gates who p...

And so senator stabenow sent this letter to sam clovis today with these questions. one of the questions is a what we assumed it would be last night. it is, it has been reported that you have been contacted and interviewed by the special counsel as part of its investigation. is this true? if so, if so, have you cooperated with these inquiries? hows that for question one of a confirmation hearing? >> if he goes to the hearing, imagine him sitting there getting the follow-up question which is did y...

>> he was not a person who was involved with the day-to-day operations of the campaign or a person i recall interacting with on a regular basis at all. >> this was a campaign volunteer. he wasnt somebody who was a senior adviser as many of you want to bill him to be. he was swb thomebody that playe minimal role if any at all and part of a voluntary advisory board. >>. i never heard of papadopoulos. he never showed up at trump tower. he was the coffee boy. >> the bigger question that should be lo...

Paup done husband, foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his own efforts to connect the campaign to senior russian officials. today the presidents nominee for department of agriculture sam clovis withdrew his name from consideration after those same court filings revealed it was clovis who was the supervisor who encouraged papadopolous him to make contact. "the washington post" reported clovis, nominated for a job called chief scientist, admitted ...

The campaign national co-chair, and clovis allegedly wrote back to papadopolous telling him that i encourage you to take that trip to russia and get the proposed dirt and e-mails on hillary clinton. so the interactions with the trump campaign here were widespread. its important to note, though, kate in terms of sam clovis he has responded to the "washington post" report and said he didnt really mean it. its important to note in terms of sam clovis he responded to the washington post report and s...

>> people get fired have a lot of time on their hands to talk. one might make that observation. evan, i want to ask you about sam clovis, who was nominated to be the top scientist at the department of agriculture, he withdraw himself this morning. hes been under fire with connections to the russia probe and papadopoulos, tell us. >> the washington post as you mentioned earlier reported that clovis was one of the unidentified officials in that document, in those documents with the fbi and the pro...