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Denied, later confirmed after they were uncovered. the letter directly confronts kushner's security clearance. "it is unclear why mr. kushner continues to have access to classified information while these allegations are being investigated." and breaking just in the past hour from the pages "the new york times" is this. the white house is quietly lobbying house republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on russia for its meddling in the 2016 election and allow congress 0 block neg future move by president trump to lift any pen...

Kimberly, any reaction? >> i think that's one reason why you see the president back out where he likes to be which is on the pseudocampaign trail. he's announced there will be a fund-raiser next week. he likes to be in campaign mode. that's where he's happier and in his element when he's in the white house dealing with the constant steady stream of news about russia, he gets very more rose and withdrawn and it's a problem. that's when he's most likely to strike out and do something whether it's a twitter message or something worse that cos shoot him in the foot on that issue. i think in that w...

Among members of congress? it's been said in the wake of it the georgia election last night that the democrats have nothing going except being the party of anti-trump. but it does seem that the republicans will need accomplishments to run on since the entire congress is up in 18 months. >> well, yes. the republicans definitely need to notch up some achievements between now and then. health care is going to be a big one. we have to wait to see what the cbo says about this new senate version of this bill. americans don't like what they see of it so far. and there are other issues, tax reform and...

Congress noose russia's possible coordination with members of mr. trump's team are occupying the president's focus more than ever. officials say and without a big legislative achievement soon or significant win to calm his nerves, they say the president could take action to dramatically shuffle his white house team." kimberly, any reaction? >> i think that's one reason why you see the president back out where he likes to be which is on the pseudocampaign trail. he's announced there will be a fund-raiser next week. he likes to be in campaign mode. that's where he's happier and in his element wh...

It must be compelling information that he's taking to them to elicit this kind of response from people like congressman gowdy. >> that's a great point. and jeremy, does mueller investigate or is he fueled by what we now have in testimony the president not expressing any curiosity or anger to the former fbi director, the president not expressing any curiosity or anger to his sitting attorney general over the fact that this country was attacked in our election process by russia? >> yeah, he appears to have no concern at all. just want to take slight issue with what janice just referenced. i do s...