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Saying the request lacked a legitimate legislative purpose. the battle over those records, those tax returns, now appears headed for federal court where a lot of experts predict the administration could lose this one because the language in the law is very plain. as we mentioned, trump today tried to clarify statements he made to abc news about accepting campaign help from russia or other foreign governments without automatically notifying the fbi. during an attempted cleanup in the form of a long phone interview with fox & friends this morning, here now is what the president is saying about b...

Thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> we used you in the setup to explain what happened when you were the acting head of the d.e.a. and the president made those comments about not being so nice and the position you took. you had to take it upon yourself to write an email to your staff to say, this isn't the way we do business after donald trump made his comments about accepting foreign campaign help. a number of law enforcement veterans said this had undone months of work essentially hiding with foreign spies and demoralizing the agents trying to stop them. tell us what the eff...

President trump appearing to backtrack, saying he would accept campaign help from a former government -- with a foreign government rather without necessarily telling the fbi. here's what he said initially and how he revised hose comments yesterday. >> if somebody called from a country and said we have information on your opponent, oh, i'd think i want to hear it. >> would that not be interference in an election? >> it's not interference. would i take it. >> first of all, i don't think they would present me with anything bad. they know how much i love this country. number two, if i was, and of ...

Accepting foreign campaign help. president trump clarifying his originalid comments on that. mike, what is the president sayingth now?ng >> reporter: good morning to oo you. because heto told an interviewe on wednesday over at abc, george stephanopoulos, that life doesn't work this way. you don'trk call the fbi when t foreign intelligence operatives or foreign government tries to give you dirt on an opposition, a political pony here in the united states during an election. after hes said that of course firestorm of criticism. the president appearing up the next morning ong "fox & friend. it wa...

Rivals. >> if you don't look at it, how are you going to know if it's bad, of course you would give it to the fbi or report it to the attorney general or somebody like that. >> that last part there, of course, you would call the fbi is far different than what he told abc news. quote, i think i'd take it. i'd go maybe to the fbi is what the president said the other day. cleanup today, but still the president trying to make this all much ado about nothing, taking campaign help from a for power sill legal, but the president conflates it with leader to leader small talk. >> one thing that's differ...