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Investigators. with us to discuss cnn legal analyst who has worked closely with robert mueller and cnn political analyst congress nal correspondent for "the washington post". fbi agents actually warn the hope hicks they were trying to contact her. the what do you see as significant? >> it's interesting because they attempted to reach out to hope hicks during the transition. so we see here a continuum of efforts between the trump campaign and the russians or if you want to put it most benignly, russians reaching out to trump campaign officials from pre election through the transition. and so yo...

Power she actually has? it feels like every time he makes a speech that gets bipartisan praise, there's a leak that it was ivanka trump who pushed this part of the speech, but when something like this tweet happens we don't hear anything about what ivanka trump is saying. >> look, i think that it is complicated for her and for her husband but particularly for her. i think there have been issues where they have pushed pretty hard. when my colleague and i interviewed her a couple months ago she did talk about how, look, i'm not there to sort of be the moderate wing. there were discreet issues sh...

Issues on which she was going to try to impact policy. but there really isn't -- this has been said by several people close to the president, and i think there is a case for that. there is not a huge constituency for her policies among his base, among the people who elected him. i just don't know how far that's going to go. as much as we say he is easily swayed by whoever he has last talked to, there are key issues he's firm on for many decades. coming up, the president's election fraud commission asks for. also a gunman in a new york city hospital. police say it was a doctor who opened fire...

Off to trump tower. they met with president-elect trump. is there a sense that maybe that meeting was just smoke and mirrors? >> i think there's a philosophy for some to stay in there. and to see if they can affect change, right? we have elon musk who is staying attached to trump with the hopes of impacting policy. however, you have someone like travis from uber who just from pressure from his own company and the public, had to step down from being in trump's group. so, i think it's going to be a lit boiflt of both. you're going to have some folks who stay in there and see if they can really h...

Appropriation process as the house and senate are supposed to. every member in the house is appropriation riders which say you can't spend money on certain things. it's a way to impact policy. and the house of representatives passed seven different appropriation the senate didn't pass a single appropriation bill. they rejected their ability to do so. >> i guess, congressman, the thing that i don't like. i mean, look, a lot of2#lé thoe riders, those amendments are special deals for special people. that's the problem-that's how they appear to me. they come in at the last minute. i certainly do...