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To senior administration. now we are getting insight into perhaps the reasons why. last night president trump on fox news strongly pushing back on the "the washington post" report he meets with a number of leaders and took no efforts to conceal notes from those putin meetings. take a listen. >> i'm not keeping anything under raps. i couldn't care less. i met with every leader, just about. individuallily. i meet with modi. in japan, i meet with aby and all of them. anybody could have listened to that meeting. that meeting is open for grabs. >> reporter: this "the washington post" report came on...

York times", the meetings with vladimir putin being undocumented and the fbi looking into whether the president, you know, was working in some fashion, unwittingly or otherwise, with russia. how do you suppose that might change or alter some of the questioning or rough focus of this upcoming hearing? >> i think that's a very rich your of explanation for him to be focused on, particularly and very different time. that's an area of potential weakness for him. he was not overseeing that kind of department, and because of what you're pointing out, which is that the mueller probe originated in this...

There is a suspicion as to why would you fire comey? was this beyond just political strategy? and so, you know, we'll see where it ends. we already know that there are a lot of people close to the president involved with russia. whether he personally got involved for whatever reason, we don't know, so we'll see. >> peggy? >> it is astonishing, chuck. we are talking about a major newspaper report that the federal bureau of investigation in america has launched a counterintelligence probe against a sitting president -- >> it's like a bad movie plot. >> you know what, you would reject it if you w...

He called comey a crooked cop. >> the investigation was eventually handed to robert mueller, of course. not clear what happened after that. joining us to help explain, cnn reporter erica orton. >> good morning. the counter intelligence probe was taken over by robert mueller after his investigation began, and the counterintelligence probe puts a finer point on the mueller investigation, which has of course been investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with russia, and the counterintelligence investigation was specifically into whether trump had been or was acting on behalf of the russi...

The fbi counterintelligence probe was prompted by the firing of former fbi director james comey. may 9th, 2017. >> today marks the longest shutdown of the federal government in history. talking about more than 800,000 federal employees who do not have a paycheck now nor is there one in sight. and we're hearing all of these stories of people selling things that are very valuable to them, their cars, momentos, books, whatever it takes so they can pay their bills. cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher with us, she sat down with one tsa worker that didn't get paid yesterday. that had to be a...