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Associated with the campaign. you know, we talked about this criminal investigation that he's providing information on. he's also providing information about links, about people connected to the campaign that may have been communicating with russians, all of that. this is certainly the heart of the special counsel's investigation. and it's quite clear when you read these documents that he was central and he came in early. he came in early to them. he was willing to cooperate from the beginning. he helped perhaps bring other people in to cooperate. >> mm-hmm. >> so what you see here is that wit...

Criminal investigation that he's providing information on. he's also providing information about links, about people connected to the campaign that may have been communicating with russians, all of that. this is certainly the heart of the special counsel's investigation. and it's quite clear when you read these documents that he was central and he came in early. he came in early to them. he was willing to cooperate from the beginning. he helped perhaps bring other people in to cooperate. >> mm-hmm. >> so what you see here is that without him, you're really starting to see how important michael...

Right? because this comes just a couple days, or shortly i should say after the president submitted his written questions -- his written answers to the special counsel. sources telling cnn, john, that the acting attorney general, matthew whitaker, has informed -- was informed ahead of time for this. if the president put whitaker in charge of the d.o.j. to help him with this russia investigation, he can't be really happy with him right now, can he? >> well, it's not clear from the reporting which has been mixed all day as to whether or not rosenstein is still in charge of the russia investigati...

Whether or not rosenstein is still in charge of the russian investigation. it appears that he is. that he has not been removed from that position but the attorney general was informed and passed that information on. maybe he's not in a position to do anything. >> here's what our reporting is saying that attorney rosenstein is still in charge of the day-to-day handling of the russia investigation but whitaker is his boss. and he has been a critic of mueller. so what happens if they disagree on something? >> whitaker's the boss. he had to have been informed. >> hold on. i want to get john. they ...

>> that's stone to corsi. >> stone to corsi. word is very damaging. none of this was public information. in materials of the definition of collusion, it was weeks later that these wikileaks e-mails were sent out in a very coordinated, highly effective fashion just within hours of the access hollywood tapes and that then, again, just to remind people who are old enough to remember, the president used wikileaks to maximum effect within the final closing weeks of the campaign. so what is the remaining question here about collusion? simply what the president knew because we have a preclear idea he...