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Republicans in the majority. >> there's a zigzag effect going on. primaries did not work out well for the man who primaried ted cruz. are you worried about seeing trump folk primary -- >> i want to see the republican base which includes the trump base which has brought in new voters. i saw it in michigan. we need them to turn out for these congressional candidates. >> what if they don't agree with the trump positions? what if you have somebody -- even ted cruz. if you looked at it on paper, he won't talk about bump stocks, won't talk about universal background checks. the president is talking ...

Remember, he almost resigned last year or at least talked about it and drafted resignation after charlottesville. he has known the president's positions on tariffs for a very, very long time. up until the last few weeks there have been enough people -- we keep saying moderating influences. that isn't really how this process is working. it's people willing to jump on the grenade. one of those people was rob porter, the staff secretary, who basically knew enough to run into the oval office and stop something as it was going down or to bring in other people to sort of redirect the president. it's...

Lewinsky-esque fear up the spine that people around him have say he cannot sit down with anybody who has the ability to charge him with lying because he will not tell the truth about this? >> i think this is one element of a much broader fear about him sitting with investigators and not telling the truth. somebody close to him said to me the strangest thing you hear said over and over again is they're going to set a perjury trap for the president and that's what his lawyers are afraid of. this person that likes the president quite a bit said he is a walking perjury trap. meaning literally he w...

Evidence developed of that. to be fair to the american people, let's get our report out. if something more comes out after that, all of us would be look to look at that additional evidence. let's tell the people what we know. >> as you know, there have been lots of complaints of leaks from your committee, primarily republicans complaining that democrats have been leaking, and even the president has been complaining that some of the democrats on your panel have been looking. it looks like at least from our cnn reporting this is a bipartisan leaking effort. here is what manu raju, our reporter h...

2006 alleged affair with the porn star during his many years in the public eye. so why does the stormy daniels scandal now stand out? brian todd is working this part of the story for us. brian, tell us more. >> with all the allegations of groping, inappropriate advances and worse from other women, it's stormy who president trump and his attorney michael kohn spent the most time trying to keep quiet. we found daniels has exhibited a unique ability to keep her case in the public eye and to give president trump and kohn headaches. >> of all the women who have made claims about donald trump includ...