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testify about michael flynn and russian ambassador kislayak. at today s briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. listen. reporter: how does this administration try to revamp its image, 2 1/2 months in, you ve got this yates story today, you ve got other things going on, you ve got russia, you ve got wiretapping. no, we don t have that. regarding the allegations of capitol hill. i have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. you ve got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that s a russian connection. but every single person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. let s talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this white house and those close to it and ties to russia. we want to show you a flowchart just so that ....
another seems to open. enter, the new york times front page story of a secret plan by trump associates said to be backed by kremlin about the armed conflict with russian allied forces within its own borders. in other words, while the fbi s investigating an alleged back channel during the election between russia and the trump campaign, there may be another previously undisclosed back channel between russia and known trump associates. but before we dive into the times report, a little context. throughout the entire russia controversy, the president has repeatedly denied having any russian business ties. i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don t have any deals in russia. russia is fake news. russia is fake news. but that s a relatively recent claim. in 2008, for instance, donald trump jr. told an interviewer, russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, say in dubai and certainly with our project in soho. we see a lot ....
i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions met twice last year with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. sessions scrambled to clarify. in retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the republican convention and he met again with the russian ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting with vladimir putin. since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. i m telling you it s all phony, baloney garbage. all of the contact by the trump campaign and the associates was with the american people. you are not ....
any better. craig, thank you. thank you. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us, don t forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. just go to cnngo, a.c. 360 s.t.a.r.t. starts right now. and good evening, thank you for joining us. we re waiting to hear from fbi director james comey who s going to speak at a dinner for the intelligence community. we ll bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. earlier today, the top two members, the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. and while it s obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape it s going to take, it s hard to miss the sharp contrast between today s rollout between straight forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. both the house and the senate intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last el ....
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