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Under psychological pressure, and we also cant be sure that she wasnt given any psychotropic agents with her food or water, but this immense pressure towards her is 100% there. >> reporter: despite butinas plea agreement, the kremlin calls the charges against her baseless and void. in an interview with state media, her dad claiming she never wanted to harm america. >> translator: what harm? and how could good relations between citizens of two countries be called harm? i do not understand, but th...

Fbi or muellers team are embarrassed about the way they conducted themselves. theyre putting all of this out there and basically saying, here you go. you can see how it was done. you can see how this guy should have known better than lying to investigators. >> and these documents are fascinating. friday night, you have a little time, you might want to kick back and read them. because its really an interesting look. sara murray, shimon, thank you so much. president trumps former fixer and perso...

Conspiracy charge and is cooperating with investigator, the foreign minister accusing america of torturing butina into submission. >> she is faced with specific kinds of torture for months. they either forcibly wake her up and let her walk in the night or place her in a solitary confinement cell and so on. i have reasons to assume that the goal of those conditions was to break her will and make her admit to something that she most probably did not commit. >> reporter: lavrovs words contradicting...

Claiming without evidence that butina was tortured by the u.s. to get her to cooperate. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, youre absolutely right. one of the other things is they will obviously be looking at some of the things accidentally made public tonight. i just went over a transcript actually that we had earlier today from a call with a kremlin spokesman and he was specifically asked, are you concerned about some of the things that maria butina might say to american investigators, and ...

>> you have to remember, at what point in time that this matter came about. two weeks or so before the election, post the billy bush comments. so, yes. he was very concerned about how this would affect the election. >> reporter: despite all of the investigations now touching the trump organization, foundation, campaign, inauguration, transition and administration, the white house is brushing off cohens comments, saying they shouldnt be taken seriously. >> hes a self-admitted liar. you know that....

Simo simo simone. >> they are saying dont let the seriousness of this offense of lying to federal investigators -- im going to read what they put out today regarding flynn. it says, nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements to the fbi on january 24th. the defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the russian ambassador weeks before the fbi interview. when he lied about that topic to the media. the inco...

We have breaking news here in "the situation room." president trump has just tweeted that budget director mick mulvaney will be acting chief of staff. lets go to correspondent jim acosta. give us the details. tell us what you know. >> reporter: we were just saying a few moments ago, the president may be tempted to change up this news cycle, and he did. i guess temporarily speaking. he just tweeted a few moments ago that hes named mick mulvaney, budget director, as the acting white house chief of...

>> reporter: hatch released a statement saying he regretted those remarks, adding, i made comments about allegations against the president that were irresponsible and poor reflection on my lengthy record of dedication to the rule of law. as for the other reality show unfolding at the white house, the drama over who will be the next chief of staff, one top contender has taken himself out of the running. new jersey governor chris christie said in a statement, its an honor to have the president con...

It was fixating tv, as president trumps former fixer, michael cohen, explained that federal prosecutors dont see his flip as a flop. >> special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and helpful. theres a substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i am telling the truth. >> reporter: in an interview, ko cohen pushed back on the presidents claim he didnt -- >> i never directed him to do anything wrong. whatever he...

Power from the incoming democratic governor and blocking him from enacting campaign promises. wolf blitzer is off today. im brianna keilar. youre in "the situation room." this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news this hour. special counsel robert muellers team slamming a suggestion in michael flynns sentencing filing that the former national security adviser lied to fbi agents because he was caught off guard. the new mueller filing just released as i say flynn was, quote, committed to his fa...