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Welcome back. according to cnn sources, it is the controversy some white house officials fear will dwarf the others. now there is even more breaking news about this porn star who says she was paid to stay quiet about an alleged affair with the president 12 years ago. cnn has learned that the president's personal attorney michael cohen used his trump org.com e-mail address to actually negotiate this $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. however, cohen has said that he made the payment personally with zero ties to both the trump campaign and the trump organization. now, daniels has filed suit agai...

Rallies, sowing discord. do you think this was a shock to him or do you think that someone had to walk in and take him through all of the different times that the u.s. intelligence community and u.s. law enforcement has tried to state just this? >> gosh, nicolle. if this was a shock to him, that would be shocking. you would hope, you would expect that folks have been telling him this type of thing in one way or another, whether orally or in writing since he became the president of the united states. i can't go into detail and i know you can't either about the things that are in a pdb, but this...

Operation being run by a adversary, that the president should be keenly informed about. >> exactly. ken dilanian, i want you to jump in as part of the conversation. i know you've studied the indictment as closely as chuck has. and i want you to -- we have some time now. let's hone in on what some of the most god-smacking elements of it. to me it's the next that there were not one, not two, but three trump campaign officials who were in some sort of contact with the 13 indicted russian nationals. >> yeah, that's certainly one of them, nicolle --. i was struck by the elements of the operation ...

That we should wait longer before talking about policy prescriptions, but clearly here, he's seeking to use this to push his infrastructure plan, but it's not clear, exactly whether that would have made a difference here. of course, it will take some days before this investigation concludes to figure out what exactly happened, but the washington state department of transportation has said that some upgrades were just recently made to this track thanks to federal dollars, actually, and so -- and this was the first day of use of this new track. so unclear exactly what caused this, but clearly th...

Cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein, as balanced as they could. cnn political analyst david drucker and a.b. stoddard. david, i don't know where to begin. what did you hear you would like to talk about? >> all of it. let's hone in on a couple of things here. i don't know that they even go together. as a matter of u.s. foreign policy, kellyanne conway did comment on how this white house views russia and its ability to work with vladimir putin. it's confusing because the president's national security team, general mattis, general mcmaster, nikki haley seemed to recognize president putin ...