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Conversations. all of which would be incriminating. >> natasha, the president's pick to be the chief science adviser at agriculture, according to "the washington post," may have been one of those anonymous campaign officials mentioned in the papadopoulos plea deal. are we likely to see some political fallout here? >> absolutely. he is definitely going be to the subject of the investigation if he's not already. we don't know if he's been questioned by mueller. that's something we have yet to determine. he essentially told george papadopoulos at one point during those e-mail exchanges that we sa...

Lawsuit. he's still here with nick ackerman, former assistant special water gate prosecutor. so, gabe, is there something in here, some sort of smoking gun or anything of any strength that directly ties the president -- i do notice on the first page of the lawsuit, they quote a voice mail and a text message from a wealthy trump supporter. boasting that president trump himself had reviewed drafts of the fox news story just before it went to air and was published. >> yeah. that's fascinating. on the surface, it shows that at least the wealthy trump surrogate is willing to brag about trump being ...

Lawyer. we have just learned there were not one but two additional people in that room, one of those people according to the associated press is renat, we described this person earlier and didn't have his name, he is the fifth person in the meeting according to the a.p. he's a former russian counterintelligence official. according to nbc news exclusive reporting in just moments ago the attorney for donald trump jr. telling nbc news the sixth person in the meeting was a translater. joining me now is former assistant special watergate prosecutor and back with me my panel, michael steele and mega...

Clearance form. in the other example, they say flynn listed a hotel they say that just doesn't exist. flynn's lawyer declined to comment in an e-mail to cnn. so i have nick akerman with me, assistant special watergate prosecutor now a partner at the law firm of dorsey and whitney. and cnn chief local correspondent dana bash so welcome to both of you. and dana, let me just dive right in with you. how -- we're seeing this trend with trump officials forgetting or not disclosing the details, jeff sessions, jared kushner, and michael flynn. how does it happen, especially when we're talking about a ...

The idea that all of these people came down with amnesia after meeting with ambassador kislyak, which i refer to as kisly kislyakitis. it's like the dementors in "harry potter" sucking all the memories out. >> you're having a hard time, number one. but back to sheldon whitehouse, the democratic senator who's saying, you know, listen, if you're a prosecutor, you'd be telling your client, shh, because if you want a deal, if you don't want prison time, don't talk. and we haven't heard flynn talk. >> that's right. but he may be. i mean, we don't know exactly what the prosecutors are doing. there i...