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Just in to cnn one of the presidents nominees could be in trouble because of the russia investigation or the nomination could be in trouble. sam clovis, who was a senior campaign official we know he has been speaking to the special counsels office. senior washington correspondent joe johns has the story for us. joe? >> john, sam clovis, as a lot of us know, was a very visible member of the trump campaign, on cnns air a lot and he was also a high-ranking official in the campaign. he is now up for...

They tend to go hand in hand. i think george papadopolous surprised them in terms of his guilty plea. and certainly the fact that sam clovis had gone in to be interviewed. just the way it happened caught people off guard. you are dealing with a white house that has been in this surreal, you know, having to go to work every day, knowing the investigation is going on for a while. i think there is a difference between how trump is feeling and how his aides are. hes watching a lot of television and ...

That around this. he has been calmer than some folks have anticipated in part because they knew an indictment of paul manafort was imminent at some point. they didnt know precisely when. they didnt know necessarily that it would include rick gates, although that seemed likely. george papadopoulos, the foreign policy hand who pleaded guilty, that one caught some people by surprise, the fact that sam clovis, another former adviser to the president who is currently up for an appointment thats await...

To leave their homes not just for medical appointments or to see their lawyers. theyve been described as a flight risk in detailed court filings. whats likely to come out of that? what do we know? >> i think its pretty likely that theyre going to have their motion denied. i think the judge is going to keep them in home confinement. what mueller asked for is extremely reasonable under these circumstances where both men have lots of money, theyve had conflicting statements about how much money the...

The meeting between trump and the president of russia like they set it up. >> look whats happening today. somebody else who was involved with papadopoulos and that advisory with the former trump campaign adviser sam clovis who was nominated for a senior position at the department of agriculture who has today announced he is withdrawing his name. saying this. the political climate inside wash made it impossible for me to receive balance and fair consideration for this position. the relentless ass...

Now you have sam clovis withdrawing. although he says hes going to keep his job right, in the government. help us put this development with clovi into context. >> you may recall when special counsel mueller put out the charges against manafort and his partner and also revealed that george papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to him about his conversations with russians as a trump foreign policy adviser, in the information filed with -- in court about papadopoulos there were all these references...

President. and it is -- it seems very much aimed at undermining his trust in the people that he has around him. the president has a lot of things going on in his mind. but i think mark can come and say whatever he wants and ill take him at his word. but when you talk about going back to these meetings that happen during the campaign, my reporting is that this was a campaign that was basically a cultive personality operation. donald trump is in the white house now because of it. but a lot of thes...

A trump-putin meeting. sessions shut down the idea at the time, but sessions did not reveal any of that discussion when under questioning by lawmakers during multiple hearings. this comes as trump nominee to a top department of agriculture posts sam clovis this morning withdraw his nomination amid questions on his role of the russian probe. he was one of the campaign officials revealed to a correspondent with papadopoulos according to to the washington post. our team of cnn reporters is back wit...

Campaign in which sam clovis is talking to them and he gets nominated if are skrobs to begin with. >> the answer was no one. they were not doing this vetting. this was a clear example. >> for those of us who covered the campaign, this was the end result of the mac gifer style operation. it takes off. the fact is that sam clovis was a western iowa for talk radio personality. he had academic credentials. as you know from covering campaigns, most com pains at a high level would never hire someone t...

Over with as quickly as possible. this is going on for a while. an aide in the campaign and key to the iowa infrastructure came into the campaign. people saw this as inevitable. with all this media attention, its best i step back. you heard yesterday that they were starting to push him away. >> they want this to be contained opinion a smaller group of people. its getting hard because they keep expanding day to day. interestingly they were undone by his ties to papadopoulos, but he had some other...