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Michael cohen now claiming that donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting at trump tower where russians expected to offer dirt on hillary clinton. sources tell cnn. and sources say cohen is prepared to tell special counsel robert mueller what candidate trump knew and when. >> it is quite a bombshell. if it's true and corroborated. it would mean that the president was willing personally to accept russian help in the campaign and so it brings the collusion issue to the president's feet. >> reporter: president trump claims he was present -- of the russian's officer and alleges trum...

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Separate question. but there is no question we've got before us the entire intelligence community that the russians interfered in the election in 2016. they're continuing to do it and they're a real, imminent threat to our elections in a matter of eight or nine months. my problem is i talked to people in maine who say, the whole thing is a witch hunt and it's a hoax because the president told me. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues. the collusion issue is over here. unresolved. we'll get to the bottom of that. but there...

That we had at the top of the hour, the special counsel robert mueller, he's looking into information from rick gates who has pled guilty as you know on possible collusion. not so interested on what paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman did, but on possible collusion. how significant is that? >> that is very significant. keep in mind that rick gates was also the deputy campaign manager for the trump campaign. he could have seen and heard a lot. he also stayed on with the campaign even after manafort left. he was in contact with a person known to be a russian spy and he knew to be a...

It made it so that he was in an untenable position, did it not? >> if he did his job, if he told the truth, then he wouldn't have been -- you know, we'll see. again, we don't have access to actually what he did or didn't do. we've got both competing narratives going on out there. the facts will support one or the other. >> did he back up comey's contention that he was fired because of the russia probe? >> when? >> during his testimony to you, mr. mccabe. >> he wasn't fired when he testified to us. >> no, did he back up mr. comey's contention that mr. comey said the reason he was fired, he test...