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They invited every major outlet except for cnn. they had newspaper in there but they didn't allow the "new york times" or politico in there but they did allow breitbart in. one america news network, washington times all of those were invited into this briefing with sean spicer that was not on camera. the other perplexing thing about this is that from the read-out that we got from this briefing is it sound like spicer spent most of his time in there discussing this story that cnn broke about conversations between the white house chief of staff and the fbi and yet cnn wasn't allowed into that. n...

Defending, denying communications between trump campaign officials and russians known to u.s. intelligence. the intense pushback follows cnn's exclusive reporting of the white house request. cnn officials insisting it only asked for the denial after the top fbi official himself volunteered that the "new york times" story on those communications was inaccurate. white house officials who asked not to be named today outlined their time of events saying the conversation happened on february 15th after a 7:30 a.m. meeting led by white house chief of staff reince priebus. fbi deputy director andrew ...

Interfere with the u.s. elections. that's an incredibly, incredibly serious story and i know that the white house would like to talk about other things but that's what the fbi is focused on investigating and i think that's what, you know, we all should keep an eye on. >> to smear the fbi as phil says, that's really, really awful. and then earlier he smeared the intelligence committee, the cia when he made that comparison to nazi germany. all of this potentially could have -- >> these people are professionals. they're going to keep doing their job, but it's not right for the president to attack...

Committee or, in fact, in i other kbhcommittee in the house the senate can conduct a thorough investigation? i ask the question because your colleague on the committee, jim himes, he told cnn that he'd like to seat a 9/11 investigation because that would remove some of the political pressures that come with being members of congress. >> jim and i agree on that. we both supported independent and bipartisan commission that can have a full investigation into the whole russia issue. democrats, of course, are in the mi minority in both chambers. republicans will have to do that. but in lieu of that...

>> reporter: now, the white house denies talking about the white house investigation specifically saying the discussion only centered on the reports and the u.s. official says that the deputy director andy mccabe did not talk specifics about the case. meantime cnn has learned or in a classified briefing on capitol hill fbi director comey did not dismiss the existence of any communications between russians and trump advisors. he did, however, take issue with the characterization of those communications as involving russian intelligence as the new york times reported, according to a congressiona...