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>> we do know, correct, mark, that obviously it starts with russia but its now expanded into the finances of the president and his close associates, obviously including jared kushner? >> no doubt about that. we have specifically from the left but from democrats weve seen them come up specifically and say that president trump is trying to use the office to benefit himself financially. weve seen lawsuits filed here in the district of columbia within the past couple of weeks from d.c. government an...

On his security clearance form about two trips to the middle east, one involving russia and a $100 billion nuclear deal, and the other, they are saying, in terms of the investigation itself, is whether he left off seven years of meetings on his security form. this comes as president trumps legal team insists that the president himself is not under investigation contrary to reporting. michelle kosinski is "outfront." >> reporter: mr. president, are you under investigation by the special counsel? ...

Investigation. >> then, he seemed to be saying the opposite on fox news. >> first of all, you have now said hes being investigated after saying -- >> no. no, hes not being investigated. >> you just said hes being investigated. >> no. chris, i said that the -- let me be crystal clear so you completely understand. we have not received nor are we aware of any investigation of the president of the united states. >> so lets deconstruct this presidential tweet a little more. the president said hes bei...

Said that the president was under investigation which started after he fired jim comey, he then came out and tweeted saying why he was under investigation. now his lawyers are saying that hes not under investigation. this is a big part of the issue, is his own inability to stick with the message on his twitter. >> right. any lawyer, any crisis communications person would say, put down your phone, stop with the twitter. but i think the reason why he does it, its not about what you or the criminal...

In the last seven years. how is this possible? >> reporter: well, thats a good question. its a question weve put for michael flynns attorneys as well. no comment yet from michael flynns attorneys about these -- this disclosure by these two congressmen. but this comes as michael flynn himself is getting some scrutiny as well on the senate side of the capital, including president trump urging -- allegedly urging the fbi director to back off the investigation of michael flynn. erin, tonight we have...

Precedent. that seems irrelevant in terms of what 2016 was about. that is where james clapper fits in. >> stand by. coming up another trump cabinet nominee withdraws his name under a cloud of controversy raising questions about whos doing the vetting. plus, after narrowly passing the house, the health care bill passes an uphill bill in the senate. a look at major changes that could be in store. youre live in the cnn newsroom. . when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must ...

>> you know that my privilege to predict anything about donald trump to with draw on new day about 9 months ago. >> its a new day. thats why we named the show that. >> okay. i would say slightly better than 50/50 that they win this afternoon which means vegas would vote against it. >> thank you very much for all of your great insights. >> one of the things clouding this process on health care is what is going on with this wire period tapping and now we just saw an apology from nunes but was that...

Not suspicious. not contacts, but evidence of collusion? >> chris, i have no hard evidence of collusion. i think what hard evidence they are obese will be discovered through a full release of president trumps financial interests and concerns for the intercepts that i believe our intelligence community and the ei have a conversation between and among russian officials. that is why i think it is important for us to get to the bottom of this so we are not still talking about this is an unresolved i...

Campaign? not suspicious. not contacts, but evidence of collusion? >> chris, i have no hard evidence of collusion. i think what hard evidence they are obese will be discovered through a full release of president trumps financial interests and concerns for the intercepts that i believe our intelligence community and the ei have a conversation between and among russian officials. that is why i think it is important for us to get to the bottom of this so we are not still talking about this is an un...

Campaign? not suspicious. not contacts, but evidence of collusion? >> chris, i have no hard evidence of collusion. i think what hard evidence they are obese will be discovered through a full release of president trumps financial interests and concerns for the intercepts that i believe our intelligence community and the ei have a conversation between and among russian officials. that is why i think it is important for us to get to the bottom of this so we are not still talking about this is an un...