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Melissa to you. alex, thank you. you are watching plump liv watcp live in houston. he and the first lady have been helping pack up cars to deliver to hurricane victims in the various shelters and to all those who may not have made it, you know, out to an evacuation place as of yet. so they are on the ground there in houston for the second time in a week and today, they are very hands on. earlier, they were playing with children and you can see now that they are helping to load up a lot of supplies. with me now is kevin, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news and senior political c...

Political correspondent at bustle.com. evan, let's start with you. what are your thoughts on this development? >> well, i think it fits with the pattern that we've seen over trump's entire presidency so far in which he tries to obscure information that is unfavorable to him, specifically about the russia investigation, and to undermine sources of that information. most broadly speaking, the media. so this is just confirmation that again his claims about being wiretapped by president obama are just untrue and again part of this effort to obscure facts. >> so, what is the fallout from something ...

Election? >> well, of course not. >> can you say whether you're aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election? >> well, i told you, general flynn was obviously dealing but he was dealing as he should have been. >> during the election? >> nobody that i know of. >> this conversation has never happened. i hear people saying it's like a fact on television. it's not only inaccurate or false but it's dangerous and does undermine our democracy. >> that's just a smattering of the denials that the president and his team have denied about ties to ...

Election an i want to get to the bottom of it. donald trump jr. said he wants to tell his side of the story, i think that would be a good idea. >> harris: jessica tarlov senior director of research for bustle.com and a fox news editor. great to have you both. i was reading some of the things you said in an e-mail back and forth with our team today. one thing that hit me, we are on day 7 of the story. i know that the democrats are like thirstier than anything we have seen when it comes to russia now that it doesn't have anything to do with what they can control when they were in office in the w...

With putin and nothing will be done until the ukrainian problems are solved. joining me now, the senior political correspondent at bustle.com. welcome to you both. kevin, i'm going to start with you here. if we're going to take these tweets as statements by the president, what stopped him from saying all of this during a press briefing yesterday? >> well, that's a good question. look, the sources i spoke with actually just before coming on air feel that the president's meeting with vladimir putin was successful. at least the white house sources i'm speaking with. they also feel that it was the...