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Because the fewer gatekeepers there are around the oval office, the more access these people will have. that's been the frustration that many have had with john kelly, that he really has at least tried. he hasn't been successful always. he's at least tried to cut down on the number of people who can call the president directly, show up in the hoefl office unannounced and try to push more unconventional ideas. for them, having fewer people around the president would be better for them. the reality is that governing is such a massive job. you are overseeing this incredibly large federal governme...

Nothing -- he just told us -- until the president and michael cohen tell the truth, whatever that is, and michael avenatti and stormy daniels's mind. i ask is there any amount of money, any number of digits that they would accept to go away and stop being a thorn in the president's side. he said no. so how is this going over in washington? >> this has been quite the phenomenon because it's been a controversy that has out lasted pretty much any other controversy that we've seen in the trump administration or the trump campaign. i think that is due in part to the strategy that stormy daniels and...

Brand new details in the special counsel's russia investigation show just how robert mueller and his team are using information from former trump campaign deputy rick gates and how gates could help tie the campaign to the russian intelligence agency. cnn's shimon prokupecz has been following every development and is joining us to explain the connection. shimon, why is it significant that rick gates is now cooperating with mueller's team about this part of the investigation. >> reporter: you're right. it certainly is a significant development here. one of the things that makes it so significant...

Planes and they hope it stays that way. >> frederick pleitgen joins us live from an undisclosed location. that is incredible, remarkable access that you got. >> reporter: it certainly was quite remarkable that we were able to get on flight, poppy. and one of the things that was interesting for us is that the situation here is quite tense and it is quite uncertain, as well. in these few days since the russians have said they don't want to communicate with the u.s. anymore in the skies, especially over syria, but quite frankly, in iraq as well, because the russians actually fly through that area...

thank you for waking up with us. i'm live in new york. let's start in texas, shall we? it's a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you're looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let's go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we're going to get to chris welch who's in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they're going to get any relief from mother nature. >> we d...