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Shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. is the president still comfortable with him, sam clovis serving the administration? >> im not aware that any change would be necessary at this time. >> that was white house press secretary today before nbc news reported that sam clovis has already been questioned last week by robert muellers team and testified before the grand jury investigating that case. joining us now ezra klein, editor at large at vox and hos...

Campaign. because what papadopoulos did was take this inside the trump campaign. and that was the importance of his testimony. >> and not only that, you can hear the reporters kept coming back to the sam clovis point. what of the key contact within the campaign, i think the campaign supervisor was how he was dubbed in the email exchange with papadopoulos. and this is an individual who the white house wants to be serving as deputy of agriculture chief scientist, right. and the question was based ...

And then statements publicly by the president. i cant dismiss that as just coincidence. >> talking about the timeline, you had the papadopoulos statement about the thousands of e-mails being offered by the russians in april and then in july the president said russia, if you are listening, get these e-mails, we want to see them. its important to note, is it not, none of the offers from papadopoulos for these meetings with russians were accepted and granted? yes, sam clovis responded, he says, to ...

Why do you think the prosecutors are so interested in papadopoulos if hes a nobody and a nothing? >> the answer is, of course, hes not a nobody or nothing. if you look at that court document filed, the statement of the offense that lays out the e-mails, it talks about, for example, hes communicating with the supervisor in the trump campaign, and there is reporting yesterday that that is sam clovis who is cochair of the trump campaign and nominated recently by the president to be the under secret...

He was important enough, mike, that when he started e-mailing about this stuff, he got the ear of sam clovis, manafort communicating with gates about the suggestions and what to do about them. that is not what you do when a coffee boy asks you to do something. i get the spin. but the reality is that manafort took it more seriously than you do. >> well, manafort had to. if the russians were trying to get into the campaign through this low-level volunteer staffer, he was there to rebuff it, as he ...

There are plenty of occasions in a campaign where you bring people if for the purposes of photo op where you create these fake policy advisory boards, sometimes theyre for political or press purposes, but what belies all this is the fact that he remained in touch with senior officials on the campaign for months after that photo op happened. thats laid out in the criminal information that was filed with the guilty plea that was revealed yesterday. and so you have people like sam clovis still in t...

The russia investigation and his involvement with papadopoulos. >> president trumps nominee to science adviser over at the agriculture adviser is sam clovis and he was cited in that papadopoulos plea and his lawyers since acknowledged he was the one in that plea that acknowledged papadopoulos in august 2016 to make ha trip to russia to meet with russian officials about the campaign chblt given all that, is the president still comfortable him saying having clovis in the administration? >> im not ...

Respond to him according to this affidavit yesterday. paul manafort was a high ranking campaign official referred to in this affidavit who was discussing and communicating with donald trump about potentially meeting with russian officials. another campaign official -- this is how he is referred to in the affidavit. he forwarded the e-mail that i just mentioned. another high ranking official who got e-mails from papadopoulos several times to discuss russias interest in hosting donald trumps campa...

Manafort, jared kushner, steve bannon. you get my point. trump hasnt commented because he doesnt know papadopoulos were told. in 2016 when asked by the washington post to name his foreign policy advisers, trump knew him, said he was an excellent guy. here are the facts. his e-mails included in court filings prove papadopoulos was talking to russians and passing that information to the highest levels of the campaign, including to chairman sam clovis, who then encouraged p papadopoulos to meet wit...

Very much in tune with the president. i think that perhaps everybody had a rose colored view of who he w he was going in, he was the person making the trains run on time, and would have no political opinion, affiliation, whatever. and i think thats obviously not the case. we know that from the travel ban, for example. and we know that from the things he has said recently. and i think that he and the president are very much sin a line with a lot of stuff. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. >> we ...