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Has done before say that there is no evidence of trump campaign or associates, collusion with russia, that that part of the investigation have closed. fact is, ive spoken today and yesterday to both democratic and republican members. house and senate intelligence committees who are now investigating that question and they all tell me, wolf, that they are still investigating. thats an open question whether there was collusion and cooperation between trump associates during the campaign and russia...

>> thanks, wolf. let me bring in our panel. well get reaction to that and all the other developments jo joining us. gloria borger, our chief political analyst, pamela brown, david gregory. tom fuentes, cnn former law enforcement analyst, and noah bookbinder, executive director of the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. pamela, lets talk first of all about the latest developments that only in recent days were now reporting and youre among our best reporters involved in covering ...

Letter from president trump saying that he was warned -- or he told president trump that he was not a target of the investigation. well see what james comey has to say about that, wolf. >> it would be lively, to put it mildly. manu, thanks for the reporting. i want to bring back our panel, also joining us right now, our senior reporter, nia-malika henderson. in that letter that the president wrote, firing comey, he citizsays, while i greatly appreciate you informing me ton three separate occasio...

And fbi director asked for additional resources to speed up this probe. thats according to sources telling cnn earlier this afternoon that justice department has said look they were not asking for more money here. but there was a sense here at the white house that there was an expansion of this probe. that led to the agitation im told and thats what led to the firing yesterday. but wolf, interestingly, the communications department here at the white house and others did not know about this at al...

>> is that yes or no about confidence in. >> well, let me shay my confidence is shaken. thats why i hope hell appear before the committee and we can ask questions directly. >> senator durbin, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. well continue our breaking news coverage right after this. i joined the army in july of 98. i did active duty 11 years. and two in the reserves. our 18 year old was in an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" thats wh...

Timely manner. the american public deserves the truth. need to do it the right way, noó necessarily the fastest way. >> chairmanñi burr says theres callsçó for a new outside investigation by açó special prosecutor in his words are not help until. respond to that. do you think you could get support frcñiñãany significant number of republicans for this kind of outside independent investigation? >> thats a good question, wolf. i think time will tell. i believe that they are -- that a speci...

>> its also going to cost the u.s. taxpayers billions and billions of additional dollars. barbara, thanks very much. let me bring in senator bill nelson. hes a democrat from florida. senior member of the senate armed services committee. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. so it would be smart for the u.s. to deploy as many as an additional 5,000 u.s. traps in afghanistan? >> yes. i support it. but wolf, theres no end to this. i am what we found is in occupy and force never wins in afghanista...

But james comey is someone who of course appointed by our last president, president obama, was a republican. major figure in the bush administration as well here. so to have this republican president, president trump firing the fbi director in the middle of all this, wolf, this certainly will not, you know, cause this to go away. this will certainly just fan more flames, create more opportunities for places to look here, as this investigation widens and deepens here, wolf. we are not getting any...

James comey. he will be speaking at the anti-defamation league summit here in washington. we left heard from director comey when he spoke and testified before the senate judiciary committee the other day. the committees next hearing begins next hour. the former director of national intelligence james clapper will testify along with the former acting attorney general sally yates. yates is expected to layout exactly what kind of warning she gave the white house about their choice for national secu...

Elected. they both were sitting in the oval office and according to our sources then president obama warned the president-elect not to hire michael flynn, to stay away from the retired general in part because he was being swept up in this russia investigate and also im toll by former obama administration official that in the view of president obama there were just better people for president-elect trump to select for the position of national security adviser. of course this news broke, wolf, jus...