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On russias election meddling. brian todd has been looking into her history. brian, what are you finding out? >> wolf, reality winters mother says she is a yoga instructor and loves animals and is not political. tonight we learned she did engage in some political activity. tweeted against trump multiple times and followed edward snowden on twitter. but her lawyer says that does not make her a traitor. tonight this unassuming 25-year-old is behind bars in georgia. there was leak that the departmen...

Refusal by sean spicer to confirm that the attorney general still has the presidents confidence. as for me, ive really had concerns that attorney general sessions hasnt respected the scope of his recusal. he was directly involved in the firing of fbi director jim comb de, and i have asked along with several other democrats have asked the inspector general of the department of justice to review whether or not the attorney general has complied with his own recusal. >> jeff sessions as a u.s. senat...

Senate intelligence committee he wont be making any type of kind of assignment or to blame as to whether or not theres any legal grounds for obstruction of justice. the rationale is he didnt believe hes in a position to do so. hes there as a factins with. hes going to least legal analysis to others. what do those facts entail? those are already out there and they will be covered by comey according to this person, the first and foremost the loyalty pledge requested by president trump according to...

Message out there and have people hear directly from him what he thinks and other times i think what hes done hasnt been, you know, in his best interest. >> reporter: today the white house slugged aside concerns about trumps twitter-happy tendencies. >> the same people who are critiquing his use of it now, critique it had during the election and it turned out pretty well for him then. >> reporter: now as the president tries to move forward with his legislative agenda hell be having dinner tonigh...

Leaker, reality winter, didnt do such a great job of covering her tracks. what are you hearing about that? >> right. "the washington post" is reporting that intercept offers specific guidelines for whistleblowers to follow when providing them with documents and other information. specific security procedures that intercept tells people they need to follow to cover themselves. post reports that reality winter didnt follow many, if any, of those guidelines. >> i assume the national security agenci...

By the fbi director that president trump directly asked him to pledge loyalty to trump personally, to back off the investigation into his national security adviser or to slow down or back off the ongoing investigation into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia senior officials. thats a really striking allegation, and to have the former fbi director, a seasoned senior lawyer and law enforcement official testify to those actions would have significant consequences, wolf. >> but...

Record. one other thing to keep a very close eye on. while senators arent expect the a lot of forthcoming questions when it comes to the russia investigation, watch as they try to lay the groundwork for thursdays hearing. they want to make sure that the witnesses know where they want to go on thursday, want to kind of set the tone for what people will be facing when jim comey comes to testify in front that have committee on thursday. wolf? >> certainly will be historic and very, very lively. phi...

There isnt yet a nominee from this administration. >> senator coons, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> well have a lot more on the breaking news were following. were also learning new details about the 25-year-old contractor accused of leaking a highly classified report on russias meddling in the u.s. election. listen up, heart disease.) you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, dont get too comfortable. were talking to you, cost inefficiencies and data w...

Had re-tweeted posts about leaking and hacking and once called the president a, quote orange fascist in a tweet of her own. and stalled agenda. even as key republicans complain that the presidents tweets are stalling his agenda the president is stepping up his tweet toy raids as the white house reverses course and declares his tweets, quote, official statements. im wolf blatser. youre in "the situation room." less than two days before fired fbi director james comey publicly testifies before th...