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Cleared of all of these charges. if he is convicted, the justice department will certainly hold up this case as a shining example of federal bribery laws still being alive and well. chris. >> right. it would have been shocking if the senator said he was guilty of something outside the courthouse. this is a complicated case. you covered it very well. thank you, ms. jarrett. a new cnn poll shows eroding confidence in plt oresident tru one year after his historic election. what does this mean for republicans? what is the lesson for them? y? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

Would have been irresponsible for the u.s. government to be warning people or actively worried about russia's ability to do exactly that, because remember, russia's overarching goal here was to try to upset confidence in our ability to have an election. so if you had the federal government actively worried about what russia was doing, that was actually going to do russia's work for them. in terms of eroding confidence in our democracy. >> hold on. we should have been worried. now it's after the fact. the toothpaste is out of the tube so we're going to do an autopsy after when couldn't we have ...

Senator. heather, you're the expert, right? would the russians have -- continue to help a candidate for president without any requited love, any kind of return statement? we like what you're going, you're going to be glad you did this. in other words, is it possible to imagine the russians doing all that they did to screw the chances of hillary clinton, all the wiretapping -- not the wiretapping, the hacking of t the -- all the e-mails to the dnc without expecting some sign from the victorious candidate in this case, that they were going to be rewarded for this? >> look, clearly russia influen...

Being leaked, criminal action, criminal act and it's been going on for a long time before me. but now it's really going on. >> okay. information leaked to the news media. mr. flynn treated unfairly. what the president did not address, of course, is that he was the one that asked and got michael flynn's resignation because of the so-called eroding confidence in him. wolf? >> yeah. it was a stark difference from what we heard yesterday and what we heard from the president today, yesterday from the white house press secretary. barbara, thanks very much. barbara starr at the pentagon. president tr...