close to him are increasingly exposed to charges that they met with, contacted, and/or communicated with russians. and so much about lying about those same situations. why? if there is no entanglement, no collusion, no impropriety, why did so many people around this president lie about the same thing? even if the president did not know about any of the dealings of those around him and reading the cohen and manafort papers, that is now more of an open question than it was to this point, he still is clearly at the top of an organization and an administration that was open for business, open to help, and open to suggestion from russians during and after the election. remember, the president was not asked about anything that happened after the date of the election in those written questions by mueller, and that's a good thing for him because clearly people in his administration were talking to