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So, what about whitaker today, not denying the president called him to talk about cohen. ranking member doug collins disputes chairman nadler's version. but the question now, is this evidence that the president was trying to influence the investigation? and if so, what's congress going to do about it? and then there was the second one, manafort verdict today. the former trump campaign chairman sentenced to a total of 7 1/2 years in prison, and the president doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on his favorite lie. i've said it before. when you'll lie about anything, you'll lie about everything. >...

Recuse himself. >> yep. >> the question is having somebody so loyal to you that he would jump on a grenade to protect you, still doesn't make out criminality. brookeing, you have to have a specific order with a specific intent to obstruct a criminal investigation. based on what i see in the "time's kwrl, i don't see it yet. i'm not saying it couldn't be proven if other facts come to light. this is not enough. >> stand by one quick second. because we are now getting some information. we are hearing from the department of justice about whitaker's testimony. stand by for that. plus today a federa...

And, look, if they had a source, they would say we had a source. we won't divulge who our source was. they said, you know, we've been paying attention. we've been watching. everyone's known for months roger stone might get indicted. we got lucky. yet, he allowed, as someone who can pick up the phone and get an answer to the question whether there were any leaks out of his shop, because it would have been a huge violation for that to have happened with a sealed indictment, and yet -- >> so what i would say is, maybe a little bit of pushback on maya. psychologists talk about framing effects. the...

Completely overlooked in this hearing. >> listen, i'm at the end of our time, pamela, but i've got to get you to respond to this, about whitaker raising these concerns that cnn was tipped off somehow about the roger stone raid. we weren't. it was good old-fashioned reporting, old-fashioned -- >> yep. >> -- journalism, something which would be shocking to them, i'm sure. >> right. it was really remarkable seeing the acting attorney general peddle these conspiracy theories that cnn was tipped off about the raid to congress when we were not tipped off as we have been very clear about, don. we wer...

Report back to the white house what he was learning because he had a line of vision into these investigations. he knew what was going on. he knew he couldn't influence them. they weren't going to all of a sudden fall in line to what he and the president wanted done. but he was able to give important information to the president, the president's team, so that the gang frankly could align their stories. and i think that aspect of his role in this thing was completely overlooked in this hearing. >> listen, i'm at the end of our time, pamela, but i've got to get you to respond to this, about whita...