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We have some new reporting tonight on two big developments in the russia investigation. one involving the irs and one involving facebook. joining me now is cnn justice correspondent pamela brown and dylan briers cnn reporter on media and politics. pamela, to you first. you have this exclusive new information about the russia investigation. what are you learning? >> yeah, that's right, don. we've learned the irs is sharing information with investigators working with special counsel robert mueller. and this comes, don, after the two sides were at odds for months over the summer. dealing with the...

Subpoena to share tax returns with another agency. the irs and the special counsel's office declined to comment. >> dylan to you now. you have new information tonight about the political ads russians bought on facebook leading up to the election. what can you tell us about that? >> that's right. what we know is a little more about the content of the ads. obviously what happened weeks ago, facebook came to the senate and house intelligence committee and gave them just a very small sampling of what was in those 3,000 ads. the senate and house intel committees are still waiting on facebook to act...

To jail. >> laura coates you agree with that? >> there could be some finessing and massagic in a federal employee bargain or some sort or a combination. and frankly a prosecutor worth his or her salt would probably look for that particular negotiation and that massaging. because when you do that you're not only able to hook a big fish but also able to get the information to hook a larger one. or parallel in his gravitas in the investigation. there is room for the prosecutors and his team and of course mueller's and his team, they do have the upper hand. manafort is not in an elect position or ...

Election and before mueller was appointed. the special counsel's office, though, went ahead with the search on mueller's home with only fbi agents care yaeg it out. and that is unusual for the irs to sit out a search on an investigation that centers on tax evasion, don. >> does this mean the irs now has access to tks returns? >> sources say if mueller office does have those returns, then deputy attorney general rosenstein would need to sign-off given the sensitivity 06 the manner. as for manafort and flynn, given the scope of those investigations, it's more likely mueller has obtained those re...

Robert mueller's team getting information from the irs as they pursue this russian investigation. here to discuss philip mudd, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news, and we all know the sharing of information. what does that tell you about how expensive mueller's investigation has become? >> there's a simple answer and a subtle answer. the simple answer is were they accepting money from people who might have also been involved years later in participating in supporting putting false information in the u.s. elections? i think -- i can't say