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Members of congress could be the most serious allegations yet about donald trump and russia. buzzfeed news reports that president trump directed his then attorney, michael cohen, to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow, citing two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter. nbc news has not independently confirmed this report. buzzfeed sources go on to allege that the president and his children, ivanka and donald trump jr. received regular detailed updates from cohen, who they put in charge of the project, despite trump's repeate...

Of the state of the union to take advantage of the situation, be incredibly abusive toward the shutdown and use it toward feeding his base. i think she made a great decision pulling that platform away from him. we already saw what he did with the presidential address from the oval office. he's not trustworthy on this level. i think she's trying to deny him a platform he would abuse. thank you very much. there's a whole batch of new poll numbers. plus, a troubling new report on the trump administration's family separation policy. there is a new tally on how many kids were pulled from their pare...

Just with michael cohen but multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents. bob mueller is not taking michael cohen at his word, he's conducting an investigation. >> and as ben pointed out, willie, the buzzfeed report is attributed to law enforcement sources. this is the first example of trump on the record being accused of telling a lie with something to do with russia. i would like to you play then and now. the then would be the three articles of impeachment against richard nixon and the now, the elements of this stor...

So that's where this gets sticky for those folks. again, i go back to the point was made the last segment. where is mitch mcconnell in this conversation is the most important player right now. not only does he play a role in getting the government open but he will also play a role in whether or not the senate moves in such a way to support whatever comes out of the house. >> what will mcconnell's next move be? as it relates to the shutdown, he can point to donald trump. donald trump clowned him several weeks ago when mcconnell had this thing done. now he's sitting there in soilance as the gove...

President trump's been dogged by questions about what, if anything, russia had on him. the issue came up when he met with vladimir putin last year. joining us now to talk about this is john nickols, u.s. national affairs and sfoern policy expert at the harvard extension school. he wrote a column saying all signs pointed to putin having compromising information on the president. tom, thank you for being with us. what do you think this is about? >> i think the president has had a long history with the russians financially and if this buzzfeed report is true, a relationship that continued about t...