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Russia controversy by sharing new details about a proposed meeting between then candidate trump and russian president vladimir putin. george papadopoulos the former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in october of last year. but on friday his legal team told the courts that during a march 2016 campaign meeting, papadopoulos suggested a summit between putin and trump and then candidate trump nodded his head approvingly at the idea and deferred to attorney general jeff session who's was at that time an alabama senator and powerful sur row game the for the trump campa...

Papadopoulos's new revelations. they're directing reporters to sessions' testimony before the house judiciary committee. this is all coming against the backdrop of tensions between president trump and attorney general jeff sessions. the two have been feuding for more than a year now. but president trump has recently said that attorney general jeff sessions is safe in his position at least until the november elections. sara westwood, cnn, at the white house. >> let's talk more about this now with scott lucas. a scott a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham, also th...

Say in november of last year about this proposal. >> i have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. after reading his account and to the best of my recollection, i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter. >> now, the department of justice is not commenting on papadopoulos's new revelations. they're directing reporters to sessions' testimony before the house judiciary commit teen in the is coming from the backdrop of tensions between p...

We touched on new polling at the top of the program that shows strong support for the mueller investigation. that same polling from abc news in "the washington post" also shows this difference of opinion concerning the president's dispute with attorney general over the russia probe. 62% backed the actions of attorney general jeff session. by that, i mean his recusal. only 23% side with the president here. as for his job approval, it stands at 36%. 60% telling pollsters they disapprove. that's the highest it has been in the abc news post poll. on impeachment, americans are split, 49% believe co...

His administration because she stood up for the rule of law and if he goes and tries to fire jeff sessions, what we're watching now is a slow motion saturday night massacre where he's really getting rid of all of the department of justice and legal officials trying to get him to abide by the rule of law. >> how do you think it will affect the mueller investigation, especially don mcgahn being replaced? >> i think it is not a good sign because don mcgahn was one of the reasonable folks in the white house in terms of the mueller investigation trying to get the president to not fire special couns...