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I would repeat in his most recent sworn testimony had to be corrected almost immediately. he was off by hundreds of thousands in his projected calculation. but it is more important to have somebody testify under oath than to have his friends and his former colleagues out there speaking to the media not under oath. >> bill: that from earlier today. catherine herridge on this today. good morning. how is the white house handling the questions about the russia matter? >> two sources close to the matter tell fox news the special team will be set up within the white house to focus on the russia prob...

Speaking with andrew mccaa and acting director of the nsa mike rogers and deputy general mike rosenstein. and the white house has a dedicated group to handle the russian investigation. catherine harris joins us with more on that. >> reporter: thank you, heather. a new team we are told will focus on the russian probe and questions do not derail the administration's policy objectives. the team includes lawyer and communication's specialist to handle questions from the investigator and media as the investigators take over the investigation. kelly an n explains the reason. >> it would help since t...

Powder keg kicking off. >> of course, mike, also in the summer, talking about the summer. they change the plank and rnc platform to a russia plank to basically abandon our allies in ukraine. >> is it that the russians are so skillful or intended targets are such dupes. >> i think a combination of both and long run strategy. they don't do it like we do. we're americans, we hurry, we rush. they take three, four, five years to develop contacts. carter page showed up in a case in 2013 in new york city. you look at paul manafort, he'd been working in ukraine years before. general flynn, that was 20...

These sanctions greatly restricted the flow of private money to the russian government and business leaders. how much pain do you think those sanctions have caused russia? >> i think it has been increasingly painful, and i believe that one of mr. putin's priorities has been, especially over the last year, to try to get those sanctions reduced. and his strategy is getting european countries to separate from the u.s.-led sanction effort, and that's why i think as part of this effort, they were trying to drive a wedge between europe and washington, and some of the unfavorable characterizations of...

Ukraine and crimea. these sanctions greatly restricted the flow of private money to the russian government and business leaders. how much pain do you think those sanctions have caused russia? >> i think it has been increasingly painful, and i believe that one of mr. putin's priorities has been, actually over the last year, to try to get those sanctions reduced. his strategy is getting european countries to separate from the u.s.-led sanction effort. that's why i think as part of this effort, trehey were tryingo drive a wedge between u.s. and washington. some of the unfavorable characterization...