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Help to actually set up the calls with foreign leaders, to suggest what these foreign leaders might want to bring up with the president-elect, not controlling the president-elect, trying to help him. the administration in waiting pushed the assistance away. >> cnn is reporting that russians believe "they had the ability to influence the administration through derogatory information, that the information might have been financial in nature." there's certainly the possibility that the russians were exaggerating this, that they were -- whatever the -- however the sources discovered this, that it ...

Now. >> do we know which trump aides the rulgss russians discussed? >> beyond president trump, none of the sources would say which specific trump aides were discussed. one of the officials said the intelligence report masked the american names, as these reports would do when you have u.s. individuals caught up in collection like this. but it was clear these officials told us that the conversations revolved around the trump campaign team. another source would not give more specifics, rather citing the classified nature of the information involved. >> what's the white house saying about this? >>...

People coming out to rallies. cnn covered town meet wrgs instead of having 20 or 30 people agreeing with their republican of -- let's cut security and medicare, you had a thousand people showing up saying you know what you're not going to trip it will rates that i pay for health insurance. you're not going to throw me off of medicaid. people began the process of fighting back. we have got to continue that. the republican agenda, tax breaks for millionaires, massive cuts to health care, great increase in expenditures for the military budget. not acknowledging the reality of climate change. all ...

Dropping health care completely until obamacare, in his words, implodes? >> reporter: all together. in a closed door conference meeting this afternoon after the decision was made to pull the bill, that was the message, direct message from speaker ryan, trump is done, the president is moving on. there was stunned silence when this was conveyed to the room according to people who were inside of it. they realized this issue they've been campaigning on in 2010, 2014, 2016 was now off the table and they were moving far. the real question is how does this damage or help them learn going forward when...

He says he looks forward to discussing the facts. campaign adviser carter page denied allegations he met with putin associates. he said i look forward to meeting with you. and stone is anxious to talk. stone told cnn, i acknowledge, i am a "hardbalhardball player. michael flynn is also under investigation but his spokesman had no comment on whether flynn might make a similar offer. devin nunes suddenly canceled next week's meeting with sally yates and john brennan, the ranking democrat accusing the