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Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to sho...

When it comes to president putin. i think the really crucial thing to reflect on right now is that when we see this security council meeting of president putin directed by president putin, you're looking at members of his council but his inner circling is even smaller than that group of men and women that you see sitting in front of him there. really just a handful. and the coronavirus over the past few years has made the news of people around him able to get to him, able to influence him, if you like, even smaller. now, those that are closest to him are very much hardliners. they will have pl...

You're in the "cnn newsroom." hello, i'm ana cabrera in new york. we begin with trump's white house shakeup as he reshuffles the inner circling perhaps bringing in new faces and a new direction. john kelly is the new white house chief of staff. now the question is who will the president pick to replace general kelly as homeland security secretary? he takes over for reince priebus who became a target of scaramucci. the man who calls himself the mooch. referred to priebus as a paranoid schizophrenic this week and now he's the sixth member of the trump administration to resign or be fired since f...

So, what are you learning? >> we've been reporting for months that russians wanted to influence the 2016 election. what we're learning is that some russians learned they had leverage over trump's inner circling. it tells cnn that during the 2016 campaign russian government officials discuss having potentially quote derogatory information about then presidential candidate donald trump and some of his top aids. one source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussions centered around whether the russians had leverage with trump's inner circle. it says the intercepted c...

He could have been part of a russian espionage operation against donald trump? >> there is absolutely no way he was close to donald trump. and so if they were going out rekrutding people would it not be logical to say they were probably doing it with other campaigns and other people in other positions. if we're all operating under theories right now that's probably as good as anyone else's. >> can i say one thing on the -- >> well, let me say this before i yield the floor. >> you're not in congress, but go on, jack. >> let me just say this. i think i'm the only one on this panel who was involv...