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Russia's richest billionaires, $12 million from the pro-russian ukrainian former president yanukovych. talk about jared kushner having ole ga oligarch. you're talking about billions of dollars among russia's top richest elite. >> rick, how dependent are democrats on these intelligence committees on their republican chairmen to really drive the investigation? >> well, the republican chairman, i mean, in the senate, at least that seems like a bipartisan effort, i think to go with what harold was saying, this is going to follow its course, but i want to mention something about the -- what the rus...

Survived bloody and contentious wars, lots of fighting, literal fighting in russia to dominate that industry. known to the u.s. government in terms of past diptlomat iic cab, close to putin, travels with him. that's oleg deripaska and putin. in terms of deripaska and m manafort, manafort was hired by deripaska, to represent his interests both inside -- both in a number of former soviet block countries and also to sort of promote chose interests in washington as well. that's coming dreirectly from a contract and memoranda connected to the contract. very explicit. the goal is to help the putin g...

Russians? >> reporter: and did any direction go as high as the president, himself? >> it certainly begs the question of whether flynn was doing exactly what the president wanted. whether he was doing it with the president's knowledge, with the president's approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically, no. >> no, absolutely not, no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still, the fbi is now leading multiple investigations of current and former trump advisers and ties to russia including a year-long investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort ...

Himself? if he didn't do it by himself, who directed him to engage the russians? >> reporter: and did any direction go as high as the president, himself? >> it certainly begs the question of whether flynn was doing exactly what the president wanted. whether he was doing it with the president's knowledge, with the president's approval. >> reporter: today white house spokesman sean spicer said emphatically, no. >> no, absolutely not, no, no, no. but that -- no. >> reporter: still, the fbi is now leading multiple investigations of current and former trump advisers and ties to russia including a y...

Getting rid of anyone creating a problem for him. fired his campaign chairman after the new york times reported manafort's dealings with a political party from ukraine. jared kushner delivered news at a breakfast party. m manafort rejected stepping down. glancing at his watch, we are putting out a press release 9:00 a.m. >> that means you resigned. >> that's kushner. >> then firing of michael flynn. and again after media reports embarrassed the white house by revealing flynn discussed sanctions with the russian officials. the white house had known about it for weeks but finally got around to d...