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Senators expect, this will be the second time a trump nominee has been thwarted because of the russia probe. the other one being sam clovis, senior agricultural department position because of his communications and contacts with george papadopoulos, that foreign policy adviser. jake? >> all right. manu, stick around. were going to come back to you. also in the russia investigation, a steady treatment of pushback against the notion that there are forces within the highest level of government de...

Flynn about sergey kislyak. now, she has not yet can explained this discrepancy. she has not provided any amended testimony to the senate foreign relations committee. and as a result, senators are not going to agree to quickly confirm her nomination this week. that means theyre going to send it back to the white house. and the white house will have to make a decision, wolf, on whether or not to renominate her next year. but im told from senators that her chances of confirmation are exceedingly g...

Identified as sam clovis responded great work and later wrote, i would encourage you to make the trip if it is feasible. in a separate e-mail it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any single. papadopoulos even did an interview in the fall of 2016 with russian news agency and the campaigns brian atlantic city z-a whos now a cnn contributor signed off on it. >> reporter: so the campaign approved him doing the only interview as far as you know with russia. >> yes. >> repo...

What was your reaction when you saw that tweet? >> its the same person who called him excellent guy. so i agree with that. >> reporter: magiante says her fiance interacted with campaign manager corey lewandowski, steve bannon, paul manafort and other top campaign officials, including michael glassner, sam clovis, and rick deerborn. and she says during the transition, former national security adviser michael flynn. most have denied, downplayed or said they didnt recall their interactions with him...

Michael flynn during the transition and the u.s. actively contributing to the foreign policy strategies for the campaign. he didnt take any initiatives on his own without campaign approval. >> papadopoulos e-mailed campaign officials in march 2016 about setting up a meeting in moscow. a campaign supervisor, now identified as sam clovis, responded, quote, great work. and later wrote, i would encourage you to make the trip if it is feasible. in a second e-mail, paul manafort wrote it should be som...

Contributing to the foreign policy strategies for the campaign. didnt take any initiate identify his own without campaign approval. >> reporter: he e-mailed campaign officials in march 2016 about setting up a meeting in moscow between uthe trump campaign and the russian leadership to discuss -- the campaign adviser now identified as sam clovis responded, great work, and i would encourage you to make the trip if its feasible. a separate campaign official identified as paul manafort said it should...

About setting up a meeting in moscow between us, the trump campaign, and the russian leadership to discuss u.s./russia ties under president trump. a campaign supervisor, now identified as sam clovis responded, quote, great work, and later wrote, i would encourage you to make the trip if its feasible. in a separate e-mail, a campaign official, now identified as paul manafort, wrote, it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signals. mangiante tells cnn that papadopoulos...

Foreign policy strategies for the campaign. he didnt take any initiative on his own without campaign approval no sununu court documents show papadopoulos e-mailed campaign officials in march 2016 about setting up a meeting in moscow between us, the trump campaign and the russian leadership to discuss u.s./russia ties under president trump. a campaign supervisor now identified as sam clovis, quote, great work, and later wrote, i would encourage you to make the trip if it is feasible. in a separat...

>> i think we have to go back and look at what his role and how the campaign was structured at that time. i think it goes to show, and we knew this at the time, that the folks who were in position of power were wholly unqualified for the positions of power they were in. whether thats papadopoulos being overseas trying to broker deals with russia, you know, in order to set up a meeting between donald trump and putin. whether you have sam clovis, who was his immediate supervisor who was the chief ...

Important enough for bob mueller to give this sort of deal to. there may be people that we have not focused on right now. maybe sam clovis who is cochair of the campaign. i know papadopoulos had conversations with him. >> pence transition. >> right. exactly right. he was cochair of the campaign. but very significant figure as well. but what weve heard in terms of connection to flynn would be kushner. and look michael flynn somebody who the president of the united states has a very close relation...