russia investigation. we're learning tonight that president trump is hiring his attorney general to hire him according to a senior official and person close to trump. let's turn to cnn's global affairs david rhodes and writer for "vanity fire" and political reporter nia-malika henderson. the last 24 hours have contained damaging revelations about the president and the russia investigation, first from reports that president trump asked two top officials, director of national security, admiral mike rogers and the director of national intelligence dan coates to publicly deny collusion between his campaign and russia which they declined to do and then today the former cia director john brennan gave his public testimony. >> i encountered and i'm aware of information an intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons