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Whether flynn was doing exactly whether the president wanted, whether with the president's knowledge, with his approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically no. >> no, absolutely not. no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still the fbi is now leading multiple investigations of current and former trump advisers and ties to russia, including a yearlong investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and his alleged connections to pro-putin figures in ukraine and alleged meetings between former trump adviser carter paige and russian individuals ...

The bad news for donald trump as you were saying earlier is he doesn't have a natural constituency amongst politicians or conservative opinion leaders. he doesn't have natural loyalty. they're loyal to him -- he's a transactional, not a transformational, a transactional leader. they'll support donald trump as long as they think what they get from him is more than they give up for supporting him. there is a danger for donald trump that even his own party at some point could give up on him. >> i don't think that's the case. look, i think what matters are the trump voters who so far according to ...

Difficult to watch. cnn's rosa flores has more. >> reporter: john and christine, chicago police say the victim was targeted because he has mental health challenges. the victim knew one of the offenders and at least initially the offenders and victim were together willingly. that changed and you will see why in the video. i do have to warn you that it is very disturbing. you will see in the video the victim is white. the offenders are black. a lot of anti-trump language going back and forth. the obvious question is is this racially moat vtivated or a hat crime? the police don't know. they tell ...

Is true. it was withdrawn. other people saying there were other forces at work. it happened after the tweet. >> his tweets do drive the news. china has complained about it. also tweeting about julian assange. in 140 characters, i would say muddying the waters about what he thinks about julian assange or what he thinks about the role of the russians. julian assange said a is 14-year-old could have hacked john podesta. also the russians did not give him the information. listen to this 2010 sound. >> he will talk about wikileaks. >> that's a disgrace. >> i think he should be like death penalty or...

Months beforehand, so it very well could be russia had the intention to stay in syria for a long time. we've seen military power that we did not expect from russia, new weapons and few aircraft from russia. they seem to be in it for the long haul. and perhaps intend to have a large military base for the permanent future. >> thank you so much for being with us and youring some insight. >> thank you. fresh off a record setting debate, a few days before she is scheduled to testify in front of congress, hillary clinton spock exclusively to cnn's jake tapper on a number of to be topics, including b...