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President's at real donald trump feed. covfefe is trending number one on twitter overnight. >> it's been retweeted more than 110,000 times. urban dictionary defines covfefe when you say coverage but your hands are too small to hit all the letters on your keyboard. that's what your ban dictionary says. to the russian investigation. sean spicer back behind the podium but short on answers about the latest developments. he would not confirm whether top trump advice jared kushner tried to st. back channel to the kremlin during transition. spicer would also not confirm whether the president knew a...

Case, he was reaching out to his future counterpart. jared's back channels, didn't obama do that with thee horrible iranian deal? and he sat and said, tell vladimir, i will have a lot more flexibility when i get reelected? that seems to be a back i channl communication that seems smart. reaching out to your counterpart, reaching out to a country in the hopes that you can get a dialog for the betterment of both sides does not seem so sinister. and i say this, putting up on the side of the screen that all the deep state leaks under trump so that the audience can see. what is your response? >> le...

>> >> he floated the deal thatt saved the world. that was floated through a back channel. he was a soviet intelligence agent. pure back channel. >> i've been watching the americans, like everybody watches the americans, and i'm watching this guy. he's sort of a b.s. artist. he's a drinker, a party guy. >> yeah. >> like good-time charlie. deep down he's an agent, a spy. >> his patron back in moscow was khrushchev's, i think, father-in-law. it was family. >> like today. clint, wha do you make of back channels? nixon tried it. he stopped johnson from pulling a little number before the '68 electio...

I mean, you have from jeff sessions to jared kushner, high level meetings to general flynn not listed on security clearances or recalled in official documentation. you have michael cohen as close to the president. this is serious. feelings it is unfair is not in the spirit of public service. >> a.b., should sean spicer be able to answer these questions a little better than he has? >> he has no choice. he did not deny it. he tried to make the case that general mcmaster spoke in general terms of back channels were part of diplomacy. he did not deny anything from jared kushner. he did not make th...

Obviously you still believe him to be wrong in that belief? >> i think he's terribly wrong. look, line us up with major adversaries around the world. list the good friends of china who are good friends and important. list the good friends of russia who are good friends and important. and you pretty much get the null set for both countries. we have a lot of good friends who are important. they are a strategic advantage. they give us long-term strength. and i fear we are doing damage to those relationships. >> you just heard when we're talking about the potential staff changes at the white house...