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"cnn newsroom" starts right now. our top story, senior white house officials are pushing back against cnn's exclusive reporting denying any wrongdoing and asking the foobi to speak o against reports of contacts good the trump campaign and russians. >> the administration confirms it spoke to the fooibl about those communications, but in an unprecedented move, press secretary sean spicer blo er bl cnn and other news organizations from an informal press briefing. for more, jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: the white house vehemently defending asking the fbi to deny reports of communications betwe...

White house is pushing back hard on cnn's exclusive reporting, denying any wrong doing when those, with the trump campaign and the white house asked the fbi to tamp down reports of contacts between the trump campaign and russian official, now to cnn chief national security correspondent, jim shuuto in washington. >> well, fred, in the midst of the white house criticism of the media o media's coverage of the story, the white house did admit it did communicate with the fbi about an ongoing investigation between trump advisers and russian officials and that it did ask for the fbi's help in tampin...

Reporting. >> between all the push back and the normal insults and the object fa skags, this essential fact. the white house confirms it did speak to the fbi about these communications and did ask for help knocking down stories describing those communications. and more broadly, the white house is not denied the existence of these communications between trump advisors and russians known to u.s. intelligence during the campaign as cnn reported last week. tonight the white house vehemently defending, asking the fbi to deny reports of communications between trump campaign associates and russians k...

We begin with the fbi story in russia. jim sciuto broke it for us last night. he's got more right now. jim, what's the latest? >> reporter: tonight the white house vehemently defending, denying reports that -- the administration's intense push back following cnn's exclusive reporting of that request, senior administration officials insisting that it only asked for the denial after a top fbi official himself volunteered that the "new york times" story on the communications was inaccurate. i should note, the white house is not disputing cnn's reporting, which spes fighted these communications du...