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A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee, congressman allen smith. Former director of national intelligence, j...

For concern. you know, kind of the message i'm getting now two and a half years later is what we should have done is ignored what the russians were doing. >> we've talked about this many times before. the information is the interference with this in the way russian interfered in 2016 in other countries. the stolen clinton and podesta emails, information weaponized in effect. it's the interference. so if a u.s. president or a candidate for president or another politician accepts some information, listens to some information, are they aiding the foreign government's interference? >> in essence t...

>> the drop-off of applications to be special agent. that's really interesting. this week's axios looked at the trump history, and foreign power being a central player in this scandal is something that in many of their estimations makes it worse than watergate. do you agree with that? >> i have for some time felt that way. i'm old enough to have lived through watergate as an adult. and the involvement of a foreign nati nation, notably our arch-adversary, russia in affecting the outcome of a political process is unprecedented in this country, and i think certainly the axios has to rank right up...

To extend their influence. and i think it's also interesting not knowing exactly the terms of the plea agreement, exactly who she was working for and what instructions that she had and how she was financed. >> yeah. >> so this is a very interesting and significant development, quite apart from the mueller investigation. >> listen, i just want to ask you quickly. by our count, at least 16 trump associates had contacts with russians, from paul manafort to rick gates to flynn, jeff sessions, roger stone, caputo, jared kushner is on this list, ivanka trump, felix sater, michael cohen. is that unus...

Russians, none of them notified the fbi or the authorities that russians were trying to deal with them on various aspects. what is your reaction to that? you were the director of national intelligence when this was all unfolding. >> well, exactly. i never did understand why all the focus, attention and outreach to russia, of all countries, our arch adversary. so now as we've certainly learned a lot more since i left the government in january of 2017 about these -- more and more knowledge about these contacts and what's, of course, curious is why there was so much lying to cover up those contac...