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Breaking news on the russia investigation tonight. we're learning tonight that president trump has reportedly asked two witnesses about their conversations co to the "new york times". joining me is jack quinn, former clinton white house counsel. my apologies to laura and chris. i thought they were coming back. they're not. i'll have to get chris' answer to the question a little later on, on another show. gloria, i'm going to start with you. the "new york times" says the president spoke to at least two witnesses about what they discussed with the special counsel. one witness said, mr. trump ask...

Information from one of the president's closest advisers, hope hicks. >> that's right. wolf. learning tonight that hope hicks white house communication director interviewed late this week by the special counsel's team over a course of two days. that's according to "the new york times." now hicks is a prime importance because of her proximity to the president. she started with the trump organization in 2014. she was a key point pooern when donald trump launched his campaign in 2015. the special counsel wants details on the drafting of the initial statement that described donald trump junior's m...

As we get closer to tonight's cnn tax debate, more on the senate tax bill that moved forward today. the questions are what did it take to get to this point, and most importantly, what's in the bill for people to look forward to or be aware of. cnn's phil mattingly joins us from capitol hill with what he's learning tonight. what's the current state of play? does it look like the tax bill is going to make it through? >> look, anderson, they're in a much better place right now than this morning, no question about it. what's important to note, even though it's gone through the committee process, t...

Qaddafi. >> is this a red line without actually saying the words red line? >> look, i think they will test. all right. and the president made noises tonight that we might respond to that, but he didn't quite say that explicitly, which he has done and what i think was uncareful language in previous tweets and comments. >> yeah. cnn is learning tonight, general, that the cia director pompeo met with william been any, a man who argues that the dnc hack was an inside job, krakting the conclusion of the intelligence committee that russia was behind the meddling. that meeting came at the request of ...

Sarah sanders insisted "the president wasn't criticizing predecessors, but stating a fact." but hours later, president trump once again pointed the finger directly at president obama, implying he didn't call current white house chief of staff john kelly in 2010, when kelly's son was killed in afghanistan. >> i mean, you can ask general kelly, did he get a call from obama? you could ask other people. >> reporter: kelly has repeatedly made it clear to reporters he does not want to talk about his son's death. and he would not go on the record today. but the white house tells us he never got a cal...