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Criticism from the left, but from the right, it leaves a $1.5 trillion national debt, something trump said he could easily n easily fix in eight years. >> and the budget will still will worked on in congress. and the big focus are the hearings tomorrow, and you can catch a preview on what you can expect on those intel hearings tonight in the newsroom with john berman. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. you're live in the cnn newsroom. president trump arrives back in washington for a pivotal week, in less than 24 hours, the director of the fbi will testify before congress, not on...

Often. a public hearing called by the house intelligence committee. normally they are classified behind closed doors. . but tomorrow's hearing is going to be public on tv here on cnn at 10:00 a.m. eastern. this hearing tomorrow is all about russia. how much did russia manage to sere the results of last year's presidential election. the intelligence community has cob colluded that russia did interfere with the vote. fred pleitgen is in moscow watching reaction to the developments from that side of the world. how closely are the people there in russia watching this story and how it do they view ...

Breakthrough. >> so there you have the view here from russia. the country's officials say they believe their nation is being demonized. a a spokesman b for vladimir putin says he feels the u.s. is humiliating itself by the discussions that are going on right now. but a lot of this has pragmatic reasons. the russians had hoped that relations would improve very quickly. so far that has not materialized. >> those hopes are dampered a little bit. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. still to come, pure coincidence or timed intensally. the u.s. secretary of state held meetings on north korea. the re...

The leaks. the leaks about all that. first cnn's sara murray joins us. new information about when vice president pence found out about flynn. what are sources telling you? >> that's right, anderson. mike pence was out there publicly saying flynn did not discuss these sanctions with the russian ambassador. turns out even though the president knew for weeks that was not the case, that the department of justice was looking into flynn's contacts in the call, mike pence only knew for a couple days he found out on february 9th. this about why the president didn't cut his national security adviser lo...

He was basically just really busy and in his rush he forgot about the details of the phone call when he was talking to the vice president. he's not admit heg lied, right? >> reporter: >> he's not, but he does appear to indicate he did talk about the russian sanctions with the russian ambassador which is something u.s. officials have told cnn. and i think this is why you're seeing so many officials on members of congress on the hill both republicans and democrats say we need more information about what exactly flynn talked about with his russian emissariries and what the interaction was like be...