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New tonight, retaliating against russia. president trump kicking out 60 russian diplomats over the poisoning of former spies. the u.s. says the diplomats are spies. trump also closing the russian consulate in seattle which is located in the building you see there, 25th floor. this coming three days after we told you trump national security council has been urging him to do this. it took the white house ten days to blame russia for the attack. trump was reluctant to out right blame putin and remember trump ignored his own advisors advice to condemn the poisoning.

Thanks for being on this story. >> thanks chris. more than 44 million people in the path once again a nor'easter, the third in just ten days. now, if you live in southeastern massachusetts right around there, you're getting heavy snow right now. part of that state is actually under a blizzard warning. some spots might see 12 inches or more. cnn meteorologist chad meyers has the forecast. for us so far it's not sticking. looks like snow but hitting the ground like rain. >> that's exactly right. i was there a couple days ago. i was on the 25th floor of the hotel. it was snowing where i was. i ...

The 25th floor with no lawyers. that's a quote from the book. director clapper, what is your take on how close to the president that this russia investigation is getting? >> well, it's getting pretty close. and just to key off something that mike just spoke about, the approach that bob mueller, director mueller is taking as special counsel in this, the thoroughness and the methodical way he's approaching this, and now, of course, you know, if you would think of it as a series of concentric circles ever closer to the president, who is closer to -- has been closer up until recently to the presid...

Counsel has been up to over the past few months, john. >> evan perez, appreciate the reporting. if you're the president of the united states, steve bannon right now is behind closed doors on capitol hill, the house intelligence committee. probably feel okay about that. it's run by republicans who has been most defensive of the president, least likely to criticize the president. the special counsel robert mueller said come in, we're going to put you in front of a grand jury. i want to read a quote from "fire and fury." the senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a fo...

Anxious to get anthony scaramucci's take on this. it will be interesting to see what he says. >> david, back to the headlines, one of the headlines about what bannon said is about that meeting. so the meeting now at the crux of some of the investigation with the russian lawyer, here's just to repeat i it again. the three senior guys thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government in the conference room on the 25th floor with no lawyers. they didn't have any lawyers. even if you thought this was not treasonist or bad blank and i he happen to think it's all of that, you should have ...